Jeffrey Pfeffer

Constraints On Administrator Discretion

The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Examines how external constraints affect organizations and how to design and manage organizations under such constraints. Taking a resource dependence perspective on organizatio...

The Bases and Use of Power in Organizational Decision Making: The Case of a University

The authors appreciate the support of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Illinois. They wish to thank Janice Barton and Ray Zammuto for their inva...

Organizational Decision Making as a Political Process: The Case of a University Budget

The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Janice Barton, Karen Riley, and Ray Zammuto in the data collection and the support of the Bureau of Economic and Business Re...

External Control of Organizations: Resource Dependence Perspective

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book,...