Communication in Administrative Bureaucracies.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 September 1977
Samuel B. Bacharach, Mike Aiken
Citations82
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SJR score10.53
SNIP3.95
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This paper examines the structural constraints on the frequency of both department head and subordinate communication within 44 local government bureaucracies. The effect of organizational size, sh...
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