HOW IDEOLOGIES SUPPLANT FORMAL STRUCTURES AND SHAPE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTS
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Management Studies
- Vol. 19 (1) , 45-61
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1982.tb00059.x
Abstract
Observations of nineteen hospitals show how organizational ideologies are manifested and sustained by beliefs, stories, languages, and ceremonial acts. The data indicate that harmonious ideologies accompany simple structures, but that discordant ones accompany elaborate structures. Through their effects on people and structures, ideologies guide organizations’responses to external threats.Keywords
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