Charles Perrow
Sign in to saveAlso known as Charles B. Perrow, C. B. Perrow, Charles Bryce Perrow
American sociologist (1925–2019)
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- Born
- 1925
- Died
- 2019
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Normal Accidents - Living with High Risk Technologies
- The AIDS disaster
- Complex organizations ; a critical essay
- The Next Catastrophe
- Normale Katastrophen. Die unvermeidbaren Risiken der Großtechnik
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5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 28,422x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,894x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,016x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,959x
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Quotes
- “The power structure will generally dictate the operative goals of the organization.”
- “For many purposes of organizational analysis technology might not be an independent variable but a dependent one.”
- “In a modern society, where large organizations have acquired unprecedented importance, social scientists have increasingly sought to understand the nature of organizational goals - what they are, what shapes or determines them, what their impact is upon the environment, and how they change.”
- “Product of complex interactions within and between the organization’s social structure, leadership groups and environment. ... They are never static but subject to continual pressure and changes over time.”
- “Covers the history and tradition, the precedents and established commitments involved in all past action. These limit, though not determine, the present actions that any one group may take. If any single thing deserved the designation “the institution” or “the hospital” it would be this.””
- “What do individuals or groups of similarly hope to gain from participation in the affairs of the organization? Or, to use an awkward phrase we shall reiterate frequently, what are the uses to which they put the organisation?”
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- 1925-02-09
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- 2019-11-12
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1925 births2019 deaths20th-century American social scientists21st-century American sociologistsAcademics from Tacoma, WashingtonAmerican organizational theoristsBlack Mountain College alumniEnvironmental sociologistsPeople associated with nuclear powerScientists from Tacoma, WashingtonStony Brook University facultyUniversity of California, Berkeley alumniUniversity of Michigan facultyUniversity of Pittsburgh facultyUniversity of Washington alumniUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison facultyWriters from Tacoma, WashingtonYale University faculty