Letter to the Editor—Implementation of New Ideas in Bureaucracies

S. J. Deitchman
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S. J. Deitchman: Institute for Defense Analyses, Arlington, Virginia

Operations Research, 1971, vol. 19, issue 4, 989-990

Abstract: This note speculates that, in a large bureaucracy, the probability of implementing new ideas depends on the number of persons in the chain leading to the implementation. Some possible organizational consequences are mentioned.

Date: 1971
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