Classical organization theory represents the merger of scientific management, bureaucratic theory and administrative theory. Scientific management theory has four basic principles: a scientific ...

IN the field of organisational management, the Peter Principle remains one of the most compelling — if not uncomfortable —observations. Coined by Canadian educator Laurence Peter, the theory ...

This odd place is an example of how hard it is to get a time-wasting bug out of a big bureaucratic system. Held up by all that paper, work in the mine runs as slowly now as it did in 1977.

Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood, Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts, The Academy of Management Review, ...