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Volume 1 The Aston study and its developments: a conceptual scheme fororganizational analysis; the first Aston study; an approach to the study ofbureaucracy; dimensions of organization structure; the context oforganization structures; an empirical taxonomy of structures of workorganizations; operations technology and organization structure - anempirical reappraisal; organization structure and strategies of control - areplication of the Aston study; organization structure, environment andperformance - the role of strategic choice; technology size and organizationstructure; predicting and understanding organization structure; Parkinson'sprogress - accounting for the number of specialists in organizations;managerial and organizational factors associated with company performance -1; managerial and organizational factors associated with company performance- 2; organization context and structure - an abbreviated replication;dimensions of organizational structure and their context - a replication; onthe dimensions of bureaucratic structure - an empirical reappraisal;dimensions of organization technology and structure - an exploratory study; alongitudinal analysis of context and structure of a large British financialinstitution; organization structure and technology in manufacturing firms -system versus work flow level perspectives; structural implications oforganizational dependencies; dimensions of organizational structure - acritical replication; research note -organization size and specialization;towards an organizational study of trade unions; bureaucratic and electoralcontrol in occupational interest associations; structure of organization inoccupational interest associations; the organization structure of churches -a preliminary model; size and the administrative component of churches;churches as organizations - structure and context; dimensions oforganizations in complex societies - the educational sector; contingencytheories and public bureaucracies. Volume 2 International comparisons: theculture-free context of organization structure; is there a universal model oforganization structure; a comparison of organization structure and managerialroles - Ohio, USA and the Midlands, England; the structure of workorganizations across societies; the cultural context of organizationalcontrol - an international comparison; grounds for comparative organizationtheory - quicksand or hardcore; organization and managerial roles in Britishand West German companies - an examination of the culture-free thesis;centrally planned development - a comparison of Polish factories withequivalents in Britain, Japan and Sweden; technology, size and organizationstructure in a developing country - Jordan; organization structure andcontext - a replication of the Aston study in India; strategies ofadministrative control and contextual constraints in a less developed country- the case of Egyptian public enterprise. (Part contents).