Works
- The Management of Innovation, Tavistock Publications, London (first edition 1961); the DOI is for the Oxford University Press revised edition of 1994, 1961
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Mechanistic and organic organization
Ideas
Mechanistic and organic systems. With Stalker, Burns distinguished mechanistic management, suited to stable conditions, from organic management, suited to changing ones. Caveat: Based on case studies of British firms.