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In a modern society, where large organizations have acquired unprecedented importance, social scientists have increasingly sought to understand the nature of organizational goals - what they are, what shapes or determines them, what their impact is upon the environment, and how they change.

— Charles Perrow Perrow (1968)

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Technology is a technique or complex of techniques employed to alter “materials” (human or nonhuman, mental or physical) in an anticipated manner.

For many purposes of organizational analysis technology might not be an independent variable but a dependent one.

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People's attitudes are shaped at least as much by the organization in which they work as by their pre-existing attitudes.

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