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1943–1996 United States

Gerald R. (Jerry) Salancik (Jan. 29, 1943 - July 24, 1996) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for his work with Jeffrey Pfeffer on "organizational decision making" and "the external control of organizations."

United States
Academics
Business theorists
Psychologists

Also known as: Salancik, Gerald R.

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The most frequently encountered view of commitment in organizations is one having to do with an individual's psychological bond to the organization.

Barry M. Staw & ‎Gerald R. Salancik (1977)

The criticality of a resource can be measured as the ability of an organization to function in the absence of the resource or in the absence of the market for the output.

People as adaptive organisms adjust their behavior and beliefs to the social context and to the reality of their own past and present behavior and situation.

Commitment is a state of being in which an individual becomes bound by his actions and through this actions to beliefs that sustain his activities and his own involvement.

Gerald R. Salancik (1982)

The theme of this book, and the underlying premise of the external perspective on organizations, is that organizational activities and outcomes are accounted for by the context in which the organization is embedded.

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