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James D. Thompson
American sociologist
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…Woodward’s definitional framework, American sociologist James D. Thompson showed that, because the characteristic forms of task uncertainty vary by type, so also does optimal organizational design. Representing the high point in the development of contingency theory, Thompson’s thesis, published in Organizations in Action (1967), holds that good organizational designs are…
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