"The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own."
— Organization

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

Philip Selznick (1949). TVA and the grass roots : a study in the sociology of formal organization, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 10