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ABSTRACTThis article explores a behavioural counterpart to the changes in interpretive schemes that characterize organizational transformation. It investigates the experiences of organizational members (especially lower level members) who introduce new perspectives through the work they carry out during transformation. Results of a multi‐year study in a religious order undergoing transformation indicated that members engaged in work that enacted a new perspective were less likely than other members to be appointed to organizational committees and more likely to leave the order. Members involved in work enacting a new perspective who remained in the order came to perceive themselves as less important to leaders but more influential in the order than other members di

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00744.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.tb00745.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe relationship between adoption of administrative and technical innovations over time and its impact on organizational performance was studied. A confirmatory analysis of the data from 85 public libraries showed that, over consecutive time periods, changes in the social structure, portrayed by the adoption of administrative innovations, lead to changes in the technical system, portrayed by the adoption of technical innovations. Empirical support was also provided for Daft's (1982) framework for organizational innovation that was found to be effective in separating organizations based on their performance levels.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00746.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.tb00747.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article investigates underlying relationships between the extent of use of computers and dimensions of organization structure. Empirical tests on a sample of 149 Australian work‐units show strong associations between computer use and structural characteristics. Specifically, greater computer use is found to be related to less centralization and greater formalization and departmentalization. Further tests show that these associations are to some extent moderated by size. However, this moderating effect is most apparent in small organizations for formalization and departmentalization while the relationships involving centralization are more prominent in larger work‐units.Factor analysis led to the diagnosis of two major types of computer use (i.e., informational and operational use). Tests on these categorized effects and the factor‐analysed structural dimensions revealed that: (1) the effects on centralization are more strongly explained by the impact of operational use on the ‘centralization of operational decisions’ sub‐measure and that of informational use on ‘financial decisions’; (2) formalization and departmentalization are found to be most strongly influenced by greater informational use. Here again, significant relationships were found between sub‐measures, the most important of which is the relationship involving the informational factor of formalization with the informational use of computers and the relationship between departmentalization of core functions and the operational use of com

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00748.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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Book review in this ArticleMarch, J. G.Decisions and Organizations.McLoughlin, I. and Clark, J.Technological Change at Work.Pondy, L. R., Boland, R. J. and Thomas, H. (Eds.).Managing Ambiguity and Change.Rainnie, A.Industrial Relations in Small Firms.Asplund, G.Women Managers, Changing Organizational Cultures.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00749.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY