Paul Lawrence
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Paul R. Lawrence is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus at Harvard Business School where he served nine years as chairman of the Organizational Behavior area and also as chairman of both the MBA and AMP programs. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and economics at Albion College and did MBA and doctoral training at Harvard.
His research, published in 24 books and numberous articles, has dealt primarily with organizational change, organization design, and the relationship between the structural charactertistics of complex organizations and the technical, market and other conditions of their immediate environment. His 1967 book, Organization and Environment (written with Professor Jay Lorsch), added "contingency theory" to the vocabulary of students of organizational behavior. Recently he has, with others, made a comparative study of Soviet management practices that was published in 1990 as Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises.