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ABSTRACTOrganization theory lacks an adequate accounting for the processes that produce distinct structural configurations. This article interprets organization structure as an instantaneous correspondence between three analytical levels that simultaneously constrain and stimulate behaviour: infrastructure, sociostructure, and superstructure. Structuring results from a process of convergence across levels that produces distinct configurations and provides observers with a living record of the organization's historical development. This article explores the dynamics of convergence through a comparative case study of two organizations in the publishing industry. Both firms developed into stable structural configurations that were uniquely produced from historically specific accommodations.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00738.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTMuch of the literature on organizational control processes has traditionally been based on concepts of cybernetics, power, and authority. This article explores an alternative way of looking at the control phenomenon by introducing the idea of an evolutionary ‘controlling’ cycle. This idea is derived by modifying the basic organizing cycle (enactment, selection, retention) to a hierarchical form, with two distinct components. The model is then applied to understand the basic control modes informing markets, bureaucracies and clans. The article concludes with some comments on the likely future directions of the bureaucratic mode of organizational cont

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00739.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article attempts to reveal Jungian personality types' cognitive biases through a strategic management framework. The four personality types seem to use distinct heuristics to gather data, to generate and to evaluate alternatives. The connected heuristics appear as cognitive trails. We propose that different personality types habitually use certain cognitive trails; consequently, they can fall prey to biases that lurk in these trails. Cognitive trails may include linked input, output, and operational biases. We present the results from a pilot study to illustrate some connections between personality types and biases. We also explore some implications for future research and for management practice.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00740.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTInstitutionalized procedures for management appraisal are considered to be necessary and appropriate devices which contribute to and are supported by rational‐legal ideologies of organization. The operation of such appraisal systems, however, is frequently regarded as deficient.This article discusses three inter‐related propositions. They are that:1. the rational‐legal procedures of appraisal systems contradict the social processes by means of which dominant organizational power groups emerge, cohere and are perpetuated;2. management appraisal systems consequently come to operate in ways which manifestly are consistent with a rational‐legal ideology, but which do not constrain the prerogatives of members of dominant power groups to define reality and manage affairs in their own interests; and that3. this inconsistency fulfils a latent function of perpetuating deficiency in the operation of management appraisal

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00741.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00742.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTA study of 88 randomly selected strategy‐related dissertations was conducted to develop a statistical profile of dissertations in the strategic management field. This study also provides some empirical evidence supporting the criticism that the field is fragmente

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00743.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY