Organizational intelligence: its conceptual and empirical utility.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1973Description: 45p., 52 refs, 4 tablesReport number: PHS-GRANT-5-RO1-MH-15399-03; Academic; DRC-PP-13Subject: Wilensky recently introduced the concept or organizational intelligence. Though conceptually insightful, it has been in need of empirical documentation. This paper documents the intelligence concept via studies of organizational change in 29 community organizations (police and fire departments). Intelligence boundary personnel are identified and their influence in the development of planned organizational change shown. Finally, several organizational structural and environmental variables are introduced to further elaborate the concept via multiple regression analysis. These variables include organization size, wealth, complexity, centralization, professionalization, comparative reference, and environmental threat. In conclusion the authors agree with Wilensky that intelligence is a fundamental property of organizations that is both theoretically interesting and instrumentally useful.
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Preliminary paper
This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1973 meetings of the Southern Sociological Society
Wilensky recently introduced the concept or organizational intelligence. Though conceptually insightful, it has been in need of empirical documentation. This paper documents the intelligence concept via studies of organizational change in 29 community organizations (police and fire departments). Intelligence boundary personnel are identified and their influence in the development of planned organizational change shown. Finally, several organizational structural and environmental variables are introduced to further elaborate the concept via multiple regression analysis. These variables include organization size, wealth, complexity, centralization, professionalization, comparative reference, and environmental threat. In conclusion the authors agree with Wilensky that intelligence is a fundamental property of organizations that is both theoretically interesting and instrumentally useful.
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