Dimensions of Organizational Task Environments

1984/03/01 by Gregory G. Dess, Donald W. Beard · 3,937 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Business #Computer science #Economics #Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Knowledge Management and Sharing #Knowledge management #Management #Organizational change #Political science #Process management #Psychology #Public relations #Task (project management)

paper · doi:10.2307/2393080

published in Administrative Science Quarterly 29(1), 52 (SAGE Publishing)

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