The role of competing rationalities in institutional change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Townley, B
• 署名单位: University of Edinburgh
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069290
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 163-179
• 关键词: OLD

摘要

Reporting on a longitudinal :case study,of the introduction of business planning and performance measures in cultural organizations, this article uses Weber's identification of types of rationality as a means to illuminate institutional and organizational change. The study illustrates how conflict that accompanies change coalesces around different dimensions of rationality-substantive, practical, theoretical, and instrumental-that inform organization members' understandings of organizational and professional identity and management practices.