| Titre | Modèles de croissance et de développement des organisations | |
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| Auteur | Ad. W. M. Teulings | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1973, 14-3 | |
| Page | 352-370 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ad. W. M. Teulings : Models of organizational growth and development.
The study of the growth and development of organizations is one of the less known areas of organizational sociology. The author investigates the quantitative and qualitative approaches of organizational development based upon an evolutionary theory (growth, adaptation and development models), and presents a political model of development, stressing that: 1) organizations develop as a conglomerate or coalitions of relatively autonomous parties with different views and projects; 2) the transformations of organizational structures are reactions of one part of the organization regarding the whole, and not the growth of the whole as such; 3) the analysis of the projects, more or less consciously held by each party, offers the best method of analysis of organizational development; 4) this type of analysis ? which is not neutral since it may help to create a more conscious social identity of the less powerful parties ? is at the same time, the only way to free the sociology of organization from its increasing triviality resulting from management bias, or from an uncontrolled sinking into social ideology. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1973_num_14_3_2217 |
