Paul R. Lawrence

"March and Simons work reflects a key concern with the issue of inducing contributions from organizational members and emphasizes rationality in organizations. The writing of Likert and McGregor reflects a central interest in organizational arrangements for releasing the underutilized energy of individual members. Argyris work emphasizes the impact of the organization on individual development. All of these writers tend to start with the individual as the basic unit of analysis and build toward the large organization, while we are proposing to start with larger, sociological entities- the entire organization and its larger subsystems."

"We humans are truly marvelous, adaptable creatures, products of an exciting and inspiring — even though often dangerous — evolutionary story, a story to be celebrated with conviction and enthusiasm even as we move on to new challenges."

"The state of segmentation of the organizational system into subsystems, each of which tends to develop particular attributes in relation to the requirements posed by its relevant external environment. Differentiation, as used here, includes the behavioral attributes of members of organizational subsystems."

"The act of segmenting the organization into departments would influence the behavior of organizational members in several ways. The members of each unit would become specialists in dealing with the particular tasks. Both because of their prior education and experience and because of the nature of their task, they would develop specialized working styles and mental processes."

"[Integration is defined as] the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organizations task."

"Other things being equal, differentiation and integration are essentially antagonistic, and that one can be obtained only at the expense of the other."

"By integration we mean the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organizations tasks."

"The quality of the state of collaboration that exist among organizations that is required to achieve unity of effort by the demands of the environment."

"Globalization need not work this way. Its benefits can be steered to all nations and to all levels in each nation in a more equitable manner. But a free-market, laissez-faire process will not do this automatically. It will require governmental regulatory action with guidelines and incentives that can best be established at the world level."

"Paul R. Lawrence [was] a renowned sociologist and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of who was one of the worlds most influential and prolific scholars in the field of organizational behavior."

"To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its several forms from a Renewed Darwinian Theory point of view. Some can have positive effects for all parties while others inherently benefit the rich and strong at the expense of the poor and weak. Furthermore, some can be beneficial but also lend themselves to abuse, especially by people without a conscience, and therefore call for some kind of world-level impulse/check/balance control."

"By differentiation we mean the differences in cognitive and emotional orientation among managers in different units and the differences in formal structure among units."