"If one has heard of Charles Perrow, it is usually in connection with the book Complex Organizations. While this monograph provides an excellent overview of various schools of organizational thought, it deals only marginally with Perrow's own theories. The scholarship that focuses solely on his conception of organization, however, is far less known and well received for a number of reasons. Perrow is an organizational sociologist working in a field dominated by management theorists and economists whose scholarship revolves around human relations and econometric models - approaches Perrow largely reject."
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Academics from the United StatesBusiness theorists from the United StatesSociologists from the United StatesPeople from Washington (state)Stanford University faculty
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Christiane Diehl-Taylor. "Charles Perrow and Business History: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Business Bureaucratization," in: Business and Economic History 26, no. 1 (Fall 1997)
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