Philip Selznick

American sociologist (1919–2010)

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Born: 1919
Works: 14

Top works

Vie traverse
ʻIḳare ha-sotsyologyah
The Organizational weapon
The Organizational weapon
Law, society, and industrial justice

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Type: Person
Active from: 1966-07-14

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5 total works indexed

Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,794x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,657x
Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,077x
The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,462x

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Quotes

“Organisations are technical instruments; designed as means to definite goals... they are expendable. Institutions... may be partly engineered, but they have also a “natural” dimension. They are the products of interaction and adaptation; they become the receptacles of group idealism; they are less readily expendable.”
“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”
“There seems to be little doubt that the factor of sheer size is a very important element in concrete bureaucratic structures. However, because of the patterns exhibited in the behavior of agents in small organized groups and because of the implications for greater generality, the formulation used here does not make the factor of size crucial for the existence of bureaucratic behavior patterns.”
“The action of the officials tends to have an increasingly internal relevance , which may result in the deflection of the organization from its original path, which, however, usually remains as the formally professed aim of the organization.”
“[Even if established procedures exist for replacing leaders,] they are relatively harmless to the entrenched leaders (because functionless) so long as the ranks fear the consequences of using them”
“Trade unions, governments, business corporations, political parties, and the like are formal structures in the sense that they represent rationally ordered instruments for the achievement of stated goals.”