The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  American Sociological Review

• Publication date

  1979-08-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Political Science

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  DOI 10.2307/2094585
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