William H. Starbuck Quotes

born 1934 United States

William Haynes Starbuck (born Sept. 20, 1934) is an American organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Management at New York University. He contributed to the concepts of self-designing organizations, organizational design, environmental niches, organizational equilibriums made of antithetical processes, relativity through time of levels of aspiration as well as to behavioral research methods and epistemological status

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Labeling a firm as knowledge-intensive implies that knowledge has more importance than other inputs.

One should not label a firm as knowledge-intensive unless exceptional and valuable expertise dominates commonplace knowledge.

A knowledge-intensive firm may not be information intensive... Knowledge is a stock of expertise, not a flow of information.

Simon (1950, 1952-3, 1952) was a leading proponent for the creation of “organization theory”, which he imagined as including scientific management, industrial engineering, industrial psychology, the psychology of small groups, human-resources management, and strategy.

and Philippe Baumard (2009)

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