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| Author: | Langley, A. |
| Title: | In search of rationality: the purposes behind the use of formal analysis in organizations. |
| Journal: | Administrative Science Quarterly
1990 : DEC, VOL. 34:4, p. 598-631 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY RATIONALISATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The results of a study examining how formal analysis is actually used in practice in three different organizations are described. Four main groups of purposes for formal analysis - information, communication, direction and control, and symbolic purposes - are identified and related to the nature of the social and hierarchical relationships between those who initiate analysis, those who do it, and those who receive it. It is concluded that formal analysis and social interaction are inextricably linked in organizational decision making and that different structural configurations may generate different patterns of use of analysis. |
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