Unmanageable Organisations

Abstract

Vital signs displayed by organisations approaching the limits of size and complexity: a symptomology of bureaucratic breakdown ‐ I would like to tackle the problem of managing complex organisations by making a list of observations about characteristics or symptoms I believe organisations start to show when they reach a threshold where size and complexity become the basic internal causes of a decline in performance, and herald fundamental changes, such as decentralisation, fragmentation or on the other hand further centralisation.

Citation

(1978), "Unmanageable Organisations", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 2 No. 8, pp. 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002308