“Barnard comes close to joining Roethlisberger and Dickson in their assumption that management behavior is mainly rational and workers' behavior nonrational.”

— Charles Perrow

Source: 1970s, Complex organizations, 1972, p. 88

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American sociologist 1925–2019

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