Keith W. Smith
Contributor
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of the Pacific. He contributed an article on “Informal Organization” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for his Britannica entry on this topic.
Primary Contributions (1)
Informal organization, the manner in which an organization operates in reality, as opposed to its formal distribution of roles and responsibilities. The concept of informal organization draws attention to the patterns of activity and interpersonal relationships that develop inside an organization…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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