The Prospects of a Unified Theory of Organizations

Olaf Helmer
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Management Science, 1958, vol. 4, issue 2, 172-176

Abstract: Despite the success of numerous sporadic efforts in the study of organizations, there is at present no unified theory of organizations. This would require a clearcut conceptual apparatus and a methodology for prediction. To achieve the former within the foreseeable future it might be wise to tie into the existing terminology of game theory; the latter may require taking a new look at the psychological problems involved and introducing something like an operations research approach to them.

Date: 1958
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