"During the last fifty years, society in every developed country has become a society of institutions. Every major social task, whether economic performance or health care, education or the protection of the environment, the pursuit of new knowledge or defense, is today being entrusted to big organizations, designed for perpetuity and managed by their own managements."
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Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, (1973), p. 3.
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