• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Organization Size, Effectiveness, and Human Values
  • Contributor: Sayles, Leonard R.
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 1987
  • Published in: Administration & Society, 19 (1987) 3, Seite 328-345
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/009539978701900304
  • ISSN: 0095-3997; 1552-3039
  • Keywords: Marketing ; Public Administration ; Sociology and Political Science
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  • Description: A number of recent studies suggest that large private bureaucracies have not been the highly efficient mechanisms for producing goods and services presumed by the profit motive in industry. A number of reasons for the inherent inefficiencies of large systems are contrasted with the advantages of small size. Smallness has a number of advantages for the simultaneous achievement of human values at work and productivity.