"[The workmethods had] evolved from the experience of successive generations... Each other, often being members of the…"

"This paper introduces a concept of organizational ecology. This refers to the organizational field created by a numbe…"

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"The advantage of placing responsibility for the complete coal-getting task squarely on the shoulders of a single, sma…"

"The outstanding feature of the social pattern with which the pre-mechanized equilibrium was associated is its emphasi…"

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"Every time the cycle is stopped, some 200 tons of coal are lost. So close is the task interdependence that the system…"

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"The longwall method [can be] regarded as a technological system expressive of the prevailing outlook of mass-producti…"