Criticisms of the Dominant Perspective on Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Zey-Ferrell (Illinois State University), Mary Zey‐Ferrell (Illinois State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-205 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1981.tb00655.x |
| OpenAlex | W2010982625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 86 |
The major criticisms of the dominant comparative structural and structural contingency approaches to organizations were examined and found to possess at least ten major limitations. These structural approaches have resulted in an emphasis on organizational efficiency, goals, consensus, statics, and constraints of the environment, size, and technology which perpetuate the status quo; but the analysis of power, change, conflicts of interest, and individual volition have been obscured. Although structural analysis has resulted in some limited abstract generalizations concerning the form of organizations, these generalizations do little to contribute to understanding organizational processes, strategic choice, and power relationships. These important aspects of organizations could be unmasked by viewing organizations as arenas of micro-individual and group interests as well as arenas through which macrosocietal, class, and multinational interests and conflicts are played out. To minimize these limitations in the analysis of organizations, triangulations of perspectives, levels of analysis, sources of data, and methodologies are suggested
Business · Comparative statics · Contingency · Contingency theory · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Microeconomics · Multinational corporation · Organizational analysis · Organizational structure · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics) · Public relations · Qualitative comparative analysis · Sociology · Status quo · Volition (linguistics) · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Marketing
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
Rational Choice and Organization Theory
Nichtregierungsorganisationen, soziale Bewegungen und Global Governance
Wie politisch sind politische Parteien?
El género como una perspectiva para el análisis de las organizaciones
Aesthetic Understanding of Work and Organizational Life
The everyday political perspective of teachers
Whatever happened to “bureaucracy”
Management and Organization Studies as Science
Corporate Interest and Trade Liberalization
Telling stories, reflecting, learning
Effectiveness in Voluntary Organizations
Organizational Correlates of Citizens' Participation Association Effectiveness
Political Interactions among Teachers
Aesthetics, Morality and Power
Is systemic reform the answer for schools and science education? Cautions from the field
Corporate Tax Laws, Corporate Restructuring, and Subsidiarization of Corporate form, 1981-1995
Organizational analysis
Efficiency and uplift
The politics of organizational decision-making
The hospital in modern society
Men and women of the corporation
The Affluent worker in the class structure
Bureaucracy
Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919
What Do Bosses Do?
A behavioral theory of the firm
New rules of sociological method
Essence of Decision
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
Complex organizations
The social construction of reality
Power and Discontent
Tva and the Grass Roots
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Visible Hand
Work and Authority in Industry
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Organizations
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals
The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Comparative Organizations
Multinationales et grandes entreprises technologiques
Workers’ control of machine production in the nineteenth century∗
The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments
Program Change and Organizational Properties a Comparative Analysis
Social Theory and Social Structure
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organisations
Comparative Organizations
New Perspectives on Organization Theory
A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations
Bureaucracy" and "Rationality" in Weber's Organization Theory
Organizational Change
A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations
Group Relations At The Crossroads
Towards a Sociology of Organisational Structure
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
The Social Relations of Production At the Point of Production
The Analysis of Goals in Complex Organizations
In search of a new working class
Sociologists and the Study of Bureaucracy
Les politiques et les logiques d'action de la grande entreprise industrielle
Le capitalisme technologique
Sociologie, économie politique et buts des organisations de production
Organizational Change
Characteristics of Professional Organizations
The International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1979
The Theory of Organizations
Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance
Dimensions of Organization Structure and their Context
Environments of Organizations
Managerial Strategies and the Worker
Organizational Contradictions in Public Bureaucracies
Innovation and Crisis in Organizational Analysis
Institutionalized Organizations
The Concept of Bureaucracy
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2015 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |