Span of Control and Public Organizations: Implementing Luther Gulick’s Research Design.
In Luther Gulick's classic essay “Notes on the Theory of Organization,” he argued that span of control structures relationships between leaders and subordinates in organizations. Commenting on the state of knowledge about span of control, Gulick lamented the lack of systematic research on what he vi...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 61 - 71 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January/February 2003
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