ABSTRACT
The twentieth century has been the century of the complex organization. The number of such organizations has risen at an explosive rate. Nowadays, more than half of th~ hundred largest economies in the world are not countries, but corporations. 1 Complex organizations have come to dominate the front pages of most serious newspapers and outnumber natural persons as participants in court cases (Coleman 1982, pp. 10-3; Bovens, 1998, pp. 14-5). They are strongly professionalized and bureaucratized; their size, complexity, and social importance is enormous (Coleman, 1990).
