The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes

From: Personnel Psychology | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes. Stanford: Stanford University, 2000, 228 pages, $24.95 softcover.

This is an important book. Directed at academics, it outlines an emerging theory of the dynamics of organizational rules that enriches many other perspectives on the functioning of organizations. Its premise is that sets of rules are themselves subject to predictable rules. March, and his colleagues Schulz and Zhou, seek these regularities in rule sets or ecologies of organizational rules. In doing so, they provide ...

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