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This research was partially supported by grants from the Graduate Division of the University of California Irvine and the Office of Naval Research, Contracts N00014-69-A-0200-9001 NR 151-315 and N00014-76-C-0164 NR 170-812. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Academy of Management meeting in Kansas City, August 1976. The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable assistance provided by Lyman W. Porter, Henry Tosi, Joseph McGuire, Newton Margulies, Ray Oliver, and Richard Steers at various stages of the investigation.
Richard T. Mowday (Wed,) studied this question.