Who Controls Church Work? Organizational Effects on Jurisdictional Boundaries and Disputes in Churches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2515652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne C Monahan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 370 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1387758 |
| OpenAlex | W2319181233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
This study of 168 Protestant and Catholic churches in northern California describes how control over church work was distributed among clergy and lay people, and examines the effects of church organizational characteristics on work arrangements. Surprisingly high levels of shared control over church work were found, indicating that lay participation - even in work traditionally associated with the clergy role - is a common feature of modern churches. Church environment, operationalized as polity, affected work arrangements: Churches embedded in more centralized decision-making environments reported more tasks under clergy control and fewer under lay control. The results also suggest that, with respect to work arrangements in churches, similarity to the institutional environment is not driven by regulatory forces but rather by normative or mimetic forces
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |