Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 4
“[Task uncertainty is] the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organisation.”
Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 5
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Source: Organization design: An information processing view, 1977, p. 21
Source: "Control: Organizational and economic approaches," 1985, p. 134; Article abstract
Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 26

“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Context: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Source: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 75