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Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 1996 10:21 am**

I have tried to model the growth of bureaucracy in professional
organizations and how it can lead to organizational demise with particular
reference to the developing countries. Most readers of the account of this
model feel that the developing country distinction is artificial. This
distinction, however, was necessary since my empirical reference was after
all limited to the developing countries. Following paper describes the
model and the experimentation with it:

Saeed, K. 1996. The Dynamics of Collegial Systems in the Developing
Countries. Higher Education Policy. Forthcoming.

Reprints will be available soon.

Khalid
saeed@ait.ac.th

Khalid Saeed
Infrastructure Planning & Management
School of Civil Engineering
ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
G.P.O. Box 2754, Bangkok, THAILAND
phones: (66-2)524-5681, (66-2)524-5785; fax: (66-2)524-5776
email saeed@ait.ac.th

Posted: **Mon Apr 29, 1996 1:15 pm**

I am a student at Warwick University Busines School who is required
to undertake a project using the Stella II software.

The project should should not take longer than 20-30 hours to
complete.

Any suggestions?

(Preferably not population oriented.)

--

"Nath"
MSORNSY@cleaver.wbs.warwick.ac.uk

Posted: **Mon Apr 29, 1996 4:25 pm**

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:15:34 GMT,
Nath <MSORNSY@cleaver.wbs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:

>Any suggestions?

You could do worse than take a look at Dennis Meadows Commodity Cycle book
and adapt/extend the results there (for example, to semi-conductors or,
perhaps closer to the spirit of the book, memory chips).
R. Joel Rahn
Dipartement OSD
Faculti des sciences de ladministration
Universiti Laval
Ste-Foy, Quibec
G1K 7P4 CANADA
til.: 418 656 7163 fax: 418 656 2624
e-mail: Joel.Rahn@fsa.ulaval.ca

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 1996 10:28 am**

Nath,

I you can find a copy of Ichak Adizes book, "Corporate Lifecycles: Why
Organizations Grow and Die and what to do about it," I would be most
interested in a model that looks at the foundations of bureaucracy. How is it
that the independent actions of so many people in an organzation seem to take
the organization just exactly where noone wants it to be?

Gene Bellinger
CrbnBlu@aol.com
http://www.radix.net/~crbnblu/welcome.html

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