Replications of the path analysis recently reported by Mileti et al. using data from a sample
of department stores and a heterogeneous sample of organizations fail to support the …

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 …

The major objective of this study was to determine if theory of structural differentiation better
captures differences in scale between organizations or structural changes within …

This paper examines Blau's recent attempt to construct a deductive theoretical explanation
of structural differentiation in formal organizations. Blau claims that certain generalizations …

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) …

In our 1983 paper, McKelvey and I took the field of “organization science” to task for not
paying sufficient attention to the scope conditions under which research findings are …

Inspired by the insights of Franz Kafka, this article explores the problem of 'distance'in a UK
bank, particularly by focusing on one of its back-office processing centres. Distance refers to …

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 …