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A more detailed discussion of some of this argument appears in Daniel E. Griffiths "The Individual in Organisation", The 1976 Cocking Lecture, Educational Administration Quarterly, Spring, 1977 .

Daniel Griffiths (ed.), Developing Taxonomies of Organisational Behaviour in Educational Administration (Chicago : Rand McNally, 1969) and

"Administrative Theory", Encyclopaedia of Educational Research , fourth edition, American Educational Research Association , (Macmillan, 1969), pp. 17-24

James B. Conant, On Understanding Science (New York: Mentor, 1951), pp. 57-58.

Margaret Masterman , "The Nature of a Paradigm", Growth of Knowledge (Cambridge, 1970) as noted in Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , (Chicago: University of Chicago Press ), 2nd Edition, 1970.

Kuhn , ibid., p.182.

Kuhn , ibid.,

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Theory Construction (Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall, 1969).

Neal Gross , Ward S. Mason , Alexander W. McEachern , 'Explorations in Role Analysis (New York: Wiley, 1958)

D.S. Pugh , D.J. Hickson , C.R. Ninings , and C. Turner , "Dimensions of Organisation Structure", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol.13, No.1, June 1968, pp. 65-105.

Bernard C. Riemann , "In the Dimensions of Bureaucratic Structure: An Empirical Reappraisal", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol.18, No.4, December 1973, pp. 462-476.

Roger Mansfield , "Bureaucracy and Centralisation: An Examination of Organisational Structure" ibid, pp. 477-488,

Herbert A. Simon , Administrative Behaviour ( New York: Macmillan, 1950), p.125.

Lord Morris , Opening Address, International Intervisitation Programme, 1974, Bristol, England;

Chapter 1, Acceptability: The New Emphasis in Educational Administration , in Meredydd Hughes (ed.), Administering Education: International Challenge (London: Athlone Press, 1975)

Daniel E. Griffiths (ed), Developing Taxonomies of Organisational Behaviour in Education Administration, (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969)

Harvey Bleecher , "Educational Accountability in Michigan: Root and Branch", Educational Administration Quarterly Vol. XII, No.2, Spring, 1976, p.47.

Michael D.'Cohen , James G. March , and Johan P. Olsen , "A Garbage Can Model of Organisational Choice", Administrative Science Quarterly, March 1972, pp. 1-25.

David L. Clark and Egon G. Guba , An Inventory of Contextual Factor and Condition Affecting Individual and Institutional Behaviour in Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education, RITE Occasional Papers Series, Indiana University, July 1976.

E. Emery and E.L. Trist , "The Causal Texture of Organisational Environments", in Joseph Litter (ed.), Organisations: Systems, Control and Adaptation , Vol. II, Second ed., ( New York : John Wiley), 1963.

Karl E. Weick , "Educational Organisations as Loosely Coupled Systems", Administrative Science Quarterly , Vol.21, No.1, March 1976, p.1.

David Denton , The Language of Ordinary Experience (New York: Philosophical Library, 1970) p. 140.

John Russell , "Anything Goes at the Galleries", New York Times, Friday, May 21, 1976, p. Cl.

Donald Vandenberg , "Phenomenology and Educational Research" in David E. Denton (ed.) Existentialism and Phenomenology in Education (New York: Teachers College Press), 1974, p.189.

Lynn N. Nicholas , Helen E. Virjo , William W. Wattenburg , Effect of Socio-economic Setting and Organisational Climate on Problems Brought to Elementary School Offices United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Co-Operative Research Project No. 2394 ( Detroit: Wayne State University), 1965, pp. 169.

N. Frederiksen , O. Jensen and A.E. Beaton , Organisational Climates and Administrative Performance (Princeton: Educational Testing Service), 1969, pp. 376.

David L. Clark , Egon G. Guba , op. cit.