Social and Organisational Structures in East Africa: a Case for Participation

1 June 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Vol. 16 (3) , 433-449
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00002512

Abstract

For some time, the general enthusiasm for viewing organisations as ‘open systems’ subject to a wide number of influences has had something of a hollow ring. This is shown by the way in which many scholars continue to concentrate their attention on certain selected parts of an organisation and its environment, and to ignore others.¹In 1970 this tendency was described as follows:

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