Towards an Array of Organizational Control Modalities

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This paper explores the proposition that environmental field properties tend to determine both the structural and behavioral aspects of the organizations resident in the fields. In what is largely a speculative exercise then, I attempt to define four ideal-type environmental fields, from which four ideal-type organizations may be derived. To lend the analysis some prescriptive or operational significance for the social theorist, I then attempt to show why there is a unique organizational control modality appropriate for each of the ideal-types. Finally, these four organizational control modalities will be shown to be potentially useful as cornerstones for a generalized theory of organizational behavior.

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