"Among organization theorists general, if not universal agreement obtains that it is proper to view the development of…"

"The modern period in organization theory is characterized by vogues, heterogeneity, claims and counter-claims."

"It is procedure that governs the routine internal and external relationships - between one individual and another; be…"

"Procedure, properly applied, allows specialization to be carried to its optimum degree and effects the most efficient…"

"This is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas…"

"The Gospel of Efficiency. Every era, as Carl Becker has reminded us in his Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Ph…"

"Historically, "public administration" has grown in large part out of the wider field of inquiry, "political science."…"

"[Messianic tendencies of management thought, especially scientific management had the tendency] to extend the objecti…"

"From Taylor and his associates, on the one hand, and Allen, Bruere, and Cleveland, on the other, there extends a firm…"

"We hold that efficiency cannot itself be a "value." Rather, it operates in the interstices of a value system; it pres…"