tech|no|struc|ture

tech|no|struc|ture
tech|no|struc|ture «TEHK nuh STRUHK chuhr», noun.
any highly organized system operated by technical experts: »

... the technostructure of large-scale corporate enterprise today, where key decisions are made not by individual owners but by groups and committees of salaried scientists, technicians, engineers, and organization managers (Eliot Fremont-Smith).

[coined by John Kenneth Galbraith, born 1908, an American economist]

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