THE aim in developing a deductive theory is to discover a few general principles that can
account for many empiri-cal relationships, some of which have already been observed and …

The expanding size of organizations gives rise to increasing subdivision of responsibilities,
facilitates supervision and widens the span of control of supervisors, and simultaneously …

DISCUSSION Values of variables describing organizational structures are often constrained
by one another. If the investigator assumes that organizations are hierarchial (as Blau did) …

One of the most extensively researched theories in sociology is that of social differentiation.
This is especially the case in the specialty of complex organizations (Blau; Gillespie and …

BLAU's recent acticle," A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations,") ASR 35 (April,
1970): 201-218, re-views a number of interesting empirical findings, but whether or not they …

This paper presents a differential equation model of organizational change which focuses
upon the mechanisms of change. The model is obtained from positing the notion of structural …

This paper proposes a theoretical synthesis of the concepts of organizational size,
technology, complexity, and structural differentiation. It suggests and finds that the most …

The baseline model of Mayhew et al.(1972) which generates Blau's (1970) two major
theoretical propositions relating size and structural differentiation in formal organizations is …

The relationship between total organization size and relative size of the organizational
administrative component has been the object of several studies over the past few years …

This paper examines, both conceptually and mathematically, five attempts of mathe‐
matizing Blau's theory of differentiation in organizations, which seem to have suffered rather …