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ERIC Number: EJ196368
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Jan
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The Structure of Knowledge and Departmental Social Organization.
Adkinson, Judith
Higher Education, v8 n1 p41-53 Jan 1979
This case study of three university departments was designed to generate substantive theory about decision-making in academic departments. Homans' social systems theory was used as a framework, and it is shown that the rate of interaction affects the crystallization of norm structures and processes of influence and decision-making. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Departments, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Organizational Communication, Social Relations, Universities
Publication Type: Journal Articles
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Language: English
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