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Organizational Change, Environmental Uncertainty, and Managerial Control in a Large Post- Reform American Prison System

Author: Gorton, Joe
SKU: PMRT.GEN.0392.02694

$219.65

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780773470392
Publication Date: 2002
Condition: New

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During the 1980s and 1990s, American corporations claimed that the deployment of technology was leading to a more decentralized workplace. In fact, argues Gorton (criminology, U. of Northern Iowa) the exact opposite took place. He examines whether a similar phenomenon took place in a large prison system in Texas and discusses whether organizational the external environment of the wider organizational world affected change in the prison. He answers both questions in the affirmative

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