The Management of Innovation
Published 13 October 1994Open access
Tom Burns, G. M. Stalker
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Abstract
Abstract First published in 1961, this book is a very influential book on organization theory and industrial sociology. The central theme of the book is the relationship between an organization and its environment — particularly technological and market innovations. Based on first-class scholarship, the book presents the now famous and ubiquitous classifications of ‘mechanistic’ and ‘organic’ systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and organizational dynamics.
Keywords
Business, Management and Accounting
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