ABSTRACT
As they evolve, organizations develop structural and functional characteristics determined by the existence of objectives (explicit and implicit), by the character of their structure (official or tacit), and by the characteristics of their particular “product.” Every organization is further defined by the quality and quantity of its resources, by the flow of information (rational and metarational, such as beliefs, traditions, myths, ideologies), by the network of rules and metarules, and also by the distribution of decision-making powers.
