Summary information
Study title
Databank of Information from the Aston Programme of Organization Studies, 1962-1973
Creator
University of Aston, Management Centre Research Unit
Study number / PID
922 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-922-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Main Topics:Variables
The Data Archive now contains data from twenty-four studies carried out within the comparative organisational research programme initiated at the University of Aston in 1961. Summary details of each study are listed below, including dates, location and type of organisations investigated. There are six categories of data available from the databank and they are coded on the table as follows:
01 data on organisational structure and context collected by means of the original and complete Aston schedule, as reported by Pugh et al. (ASQ, June 1968), Pugh et al. (ASQ, March 1969) and Hickson et al. (ASQ, September 1969)-relevant references are available from the Archive.
02 data of organisational structure and context collected by means of a shortened version of the above schedule, as reported in Inkson et al. (ASQ, September 1970).
03 data giving total scores on each of the twenty Business Organisational Climate Index (BOCI) scales as defined by Payne and Pheysey (OBHP, January 1971).
04 data giving individual scores for each of the 160 items in the BOCI questionnaire.
05 data on managerial attitudes, behaviour and roles collected by means of the 'The Executive in the Organisation' questionnaire as described in Child and Ellis (HR, 1973), Ellis and Child (JMS, October 1973).
06 data collected by means of adaptations of the above instruments; also data additional to the above, including in some studies organisational performance data (marked 06P - but these are not, as yet, available from the Data Archive). These data are not directly comparable to those in any other study. The Aston Databank has been established under the supervision of Professor John Child, supported by a special grant from the ESRC. Mrs Ruth Goodkin and Mrs Pat Clark of the University of Aston Management Centre Research Unit have checked each study back to its raw data and recoded these where necessary into a standard format.
A detailed manual for users of the databank has also...
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Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Canada, England, German Federal Republic, Great Britain, Japan, Multi-nation, Sweden, United States
Time dimension
No information recorded
Analysis unit
Institutions/organisations
Cross-national
Establishments
Universe
No information recorded
Sampling procedure
No information recorded
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
No information recorded
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1984
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Donaldson, L. and Warner, M. (1974) 'Structure of organizations in OIAs', Human Relations, 721-738
- Greenwood, R. and Hinings, C. (1976) 'Centralization revisited: (a research note)', Administrative Science Quarterly, 151-155
- Hinings, C. and Lee, G. (1973) 'Dimensions of organization structure and their context: a replication', Sociology, 83-93
- Mansfield, R. (1973) 'Bureaucracy and centralization: an examination of organizational structure', Administrative Science Quarterly, 477-488
- Child, J. (1975) 'Managerial and organizational factors associated with company performance: Part 2', The Journal of Management Studies, 12-27
- Mindlin, S. and Aldrich, H. (1975) 'Interorganizational dependence: a review of the concept, and a re-examination of the findings of the Aston Group', Administrative Science Quarterly, 382-392
- Pheysey, D. and Payne, R. (1971) 'G G Stern's organizational climate index: a reconceptualization and application to business organizations', Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 77-78
- Child, J. (1973) 'Strategies of control and organizational behaviour', Administrative Science Quarterly, 1-17
- (1977) Organizational behaviour in its Context: the Aston Programme III, Farnborough, Hampshire: Saxon House.
- Warner, M. and Donaldson, L. (1974) 'Bureaucratic and electoral control in OIAs', Sociology
- Greenwood, R. and Hinings, C. (1975) The comparative study of local authority organizations: Final report to SSRC [Research report], : Social Science Research Council.
- Payne, R. and Mansfield, R. (1973) 'Relationships of perceptions of organizational climate to organizational structure, context, and hierarchical position', Administrative Science Quarterly, 515-526
- Reimann, B. (1973) 'On the dimensions of bureaucratic structure: an empirical reappraisal', Administrative Science Quarterly, 462-476
- Child, J. and Ellis, T. (1973) 'Placing stereotypes of the manager into perspective', The Journal of Management Studies, 233-255
- (1976) Organizational structure in its context: The Aston Programme.
- Child, J. (1973) 'Parkinson's progress: accounting for the number of specialists in organizations', Administrative Science Quarterly, 328-348
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- (1976) Organizational structure: extensions and replications, The Aston Programme II.
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- Payne, R. and Pheysey, D. (1971) 'Organization structure and sociometric nominations amongst line managers in three contrasted organizations', European Journal of Social Psychology, 261-284
- Child, J. (1973) 'Why Company A manages better', Management Today
- Child, J. (1972) 'Organization structure and strategies of control', Administrative Science Quarterly, 163-177
- Hickson, D., Pheysey, D. and Pugh, D. (1969) 'Operations technology and organization structure: an empirical reappraisal', Administrative Science Quarterly, 378-397
- Child, J. and Ellis, T. (1973) 'Predictors of variation in managerial roles', Human Relations, 227-250
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- Child, J. (1970) 'More myths of management organization?', The Journal of Management Studies, 376-390
- Child, J. and Mansfield, R. (1972) 'Technology, size, and organization structure', Sociology, 369-393
- Hinings, C. and Greenwood, R. (1976) 'The characteristics of organization', [presentation], SSRC/PSA Conference, 01 July 1976-, Jul-76.
- Foster, B. and Hinings, C. (1973) 'The organization structure of churches: a preliminary model', Sociology, 93-106
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- Pheysey, D. (1973) 'Individual skills and organizational requirements', Personnel Review, 14-24