Works
- Socio-technical systems in weaving, 1953 to 1970: a follow-up study, Human Relations 28(4), 349 to 386, 1975
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The long-run follow-up of the Ahmedabad experiments
Ideas
Boundary conditions for group working. Where semi-autonomous group working regressed, the cause was failure to maintain the boundary conditions it needs as markets and other environmental factors changed. Caveat: One company; the author was a colleague of the original researcher.