As we saw above, organisations consist of an (embodied) formal structure of interlocking roles.
On the other hand, organisations consist of groups of individuals engaged in a purposive activity (North 1990, 1992).
Roughly speaking, an institution that is an organisation or system of organisations consists of an embodied (occupied by human persons) structure of differentiated roles.
The fourth category of organisations consists of people's and patients' rights organisations that protect the position of patients.
Disease management advisors to Australian evidence-based therapeutic organisations consisted of Therapeutic Guidelines, 38 Australian Medicines Handbook 39 and the New South Wales Therapeutic Advisory Group.
Does anybody really think this is a productive and democratic way of engaging with a civil society organisation consisting of 6 million people?
He was soon invited to become the chairman of SBS, an influential organisation consisting of around 1,500 scientists that lobbied Margaret Thatcher's government to maintain science funding.
Not so, says the government, which claims to have found a huge underground organisation consisting of 39 "general teaching centres", 1,900 "instruction stations" and 28,000 "exercise spots" across the country.Since April 25th, the authorities have anyway had all the evidence they needed that this group has been alarmingly well-organised.
The Patent Documentation Group (PDG) is a non-profit organisation consisting of companies using technical, patent and other intellectual property related information for their business.
This process involved setting up a new organisation consisting of six distinctive groups, each with its own purposes and tasks, as depicted in Fig. 1 (noting the arrows representing the both ways communication flow between groups).
