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This paper examines the conceptions of time utilised by two groups of scientists who have an interest in the design of large scale organizations. Both groups claim that large organizations are important because they embrace and shape the work-milieus for large sectors of the populations of modern industrial societies. Both groups also take a distinctive view of the role of time in the study of organizational phenomena. Each group faces particular, yet different problems which arise from their usage of time as a construct.
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The observations were undertaken in two phases separated by two years. They suggest that although the managers only spent about forty minutes per day in the scheduled meeting that there was considerable continuity between the content of the meetings. Cf. the conclusions of Mintzberg, 1973.
See the summary in Clark, 1977a.
The survival of disappearance of organizations may be examined within the socioevolutionary perspective elaborated by Weick, 1969.
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Clark, P. (1978). Temporal Inventories and Time Structuring in Large Organizations. In: Fraser, J.T., Lawrence, N., Park, D.A. (eds) The Study of Time III. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6287-9_18
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