“Students of administration have long sought a single principle of effective departmentalization just as alchemists sought the philosophers' stone. But they have sought in vain. There is apparently no one most effective system of departmentalism.”

— Luther H. Gulick

Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 31

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