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作者:KOZA, MP; THOENIG, JC
摘要:Organizational research in Europe and the United States differs in style and substance. Viewed comparatively, important inter-continental differences persist in theory, method, and problem. However, viewed longitudinally, convergence of the two traditions over the last decade is striking. Forces for the historic separation and contemporary convergence of European and United States organizational theory derive from changing institutional patterns affecting the social location, training, mobilit...
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作者:LAROCHE, H
摘要:How should we understand decision-making in organizations? And how important is it for our understanding of organizations? A wide body of empirical and theoretical research-labeled here as the decision-making perspective-assumes that decision-making is a fundamental element of organizational processes, and aims to identify different types of decision-making processes in organizations. But what exactly is decision-making? The paper argues that this perspective suffers from insufficient debate o...
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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...