作者:LEA, M; OSHEA, T; FUNG, P
作者单位:Open University - UK
摘要:This paper presents a case study of the development of electronic communications in a changing organization with the aim of studying the complex relationship between content and context in the design and implementation of technological change in communications. The development of a computer-mediated communication system was followed over a period, of four years during which time the participating organization expanded by acquisition and then reformed in conjunction with its neighbours in other...
作者:MEYER, HD
摘要:The controversy around Weber's theory of bureaucracy that occupied post-war American organization theorists serves as a backdrop to consider differences in the institutional and cultural environments of American and continental European, notably German, organizations. I suggest that formal organizations in the United Slates emerged under institutional and cultural conditions sufficiently different from those Weber witnessed as to account for the differences in the European and American organiz...