1984; 190
Organizations: Theory and Analysis, 1984
“The Management of Innovation (1961) [by Tom Burns and George M. Stalker is]… the first major attempt to deal with the nature of organization-environment relations and identify the types of organizational structure and managerial practices that are appropriate for different environmental condition. Introduced the mechanistic-organic polarity (never a dichotomy) to the management lexicon.”
Source: "Most influential management books of the 20th Century," 2001, p. 224.
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