A number of recent studies suggest that large private bureaucracies have not been the highly efficient mechanisms for producing goods and services presumed by the profit motive in industry. A number of reasons for the inherent inefficiencies of large systems are contrasted with the advantages of small size. Smallness has a number of advantages for the simultaneous achievement of human values at work and productivity.
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