A Response to Rood and Grimes' Blind Men and Elephants
安德鲁·R·韦斯回应对其书评的批评，坚持认为组织表面现象具有欺骗性，可观察的常规和正式行政过程本质上是强制性的或仅仅是神话。
The article presents a response by Andrew R. Weiss to a criticism of his reviews of the books “Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay,” 3rd ed., by Charles Perrow and “In Defense of Organization Theory: A Reply to the Critics,” by Lex Donaldson. Weiss sticks by his assertion that organizations are not what they appear and that observable routines and formal administrative processes are basically coercive or mere myths. The author notes that unlike power, authority is a stable, structural phenomenon and not simply a variant of interpersonal influence.