The influence of centralization on innovation, mechanization and complexity in a group of mexican organizations

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Miguel A. Asomoza B.

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The investigación, modifies scales on innovation, centralization, complexity and the mechanization in the Mexican labor context. It analyzes the infor­ maron through correlations, factor analysis and discriminating analysis pointing out validity and reliability of the instruments and the nature of the associations and their trascendency for the study of the Mexican organiza-
tions.

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