This paper investigates the relationship between organizational technology, specifically the degree of routineness of work, and the social structure and goals of health and welfare organizations.

Vol. 16, No. 4, Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 1 of 2 (Jul. - Aug., 2005), pp. 332-343 (12 pages) This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from ...

An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. An organization provides a means of using individual ...