Culture and Organization Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9753293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Calvin Morrill (0000-0002-9954-3499, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 619 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-40 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716208320241 |
| OpenAlex | W1987818343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 109 |
Culture has become a legitimate concern and part of the basic conceptual toolkit in much of contemporary organization theory. This article historically traces the contested place of culture in organization theory—from acultural rationalist theorizing at the turn of the twentieth century; to the accidental “discovery” of shop floor culture by human relations scholars in the 1920s; to mid-twentieth-century explorations of informal and institutionalized relations in organizations; to present-day approaches that blend concepts from organizational culture frameworks, neoinstitutional analysis, sociology of culture, and social movement theory. This historical backdrop provides a context for raising several research questions relevant to organizational change, boundaries, and deviance. In closing, the author suggests that an analytic nexus between culture, power, and agency is emerging in contemporary organization theory that ultimately may yield a theory of society
Agency (philosophy · Culture change · Deviance (statistics · Epistemology · Management · Nexus (standard · Organization studies · Organizational culture · Organizational theory · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Policy and Administration Research
Bridging the praxis of hazards and development with resilience
Institutional Ambiguity and De Facto Tracking in STEM
Power, Revisited
Revisiting the notion of boundary object
A Socio-Political and -Cultural Model of the War in Afghanistan 1
Assessment of Gender Equality and Workplace Harassment in Health Institutions of Haramaya University, Eastern Ethiopia
Group Cultures and the Everyday Life of Organizations
The ascension of Kafkaesque bureaucracy in private sector organizations
Replication or Innovation? Structuration in Policy Implementation
An institutional perspective on workplace incivility
Culture as a Universal Variable Opportunity Flow and Selection Process in Silicon Valley
Conflict Resolution in Organizations
Construction of Justice at the Street Level
Organizational Culture in Civic Associations in Russia
Controlling Consensual Sex Among Prisoners
Nations, National Cultures, and Natural Languages
Culture in transnational Interaction
Retour sur la notion d'objet-frontière
Regreso sobre la noción de objeto frontera
Rules, Relations, and Work
Making Sense of Culture
The Anthropology of Faith and Development
The Relational Foundations of Inequality at Work I
Opening up the Pandora's box of sustainability league tables of universities
Keeping our Mission, Changing our System
Men who manage
Men and women of the corporation
Kingdom of children
Introduction
The Challenger Launch Decision
Forging Industrial Policy
Contentious Curricula
Morals and Markets. the Development of Life Insurance in the United States
The World's Newest Profession
The System of Professions
Power Plays
Deconstructing Organizational Taboos
Introductory Essay—Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Leadership in administration
Complex organizations
Engineering Culture
Boys in white
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Workers' control in America
Custom, Wages, And Work-Load In Nineteenth-Century Industry
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
The New Structuralism in Organizational Theory
Framing Processes, Ideology, and Discursive Fields
Big Money Crime
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Selling Women Short
Elusive Togetherness
Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations.I
Home and Work
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
Negotiated Orders and Organizational Cultures
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
For love and money
Administrative Science Quarterly
Between Deference and Distinction
Kitchens
Covert Political Conflict in Organizations
Constructing Polities and Markets
Narrating Social Structure
The constitution of society
The social construction of reality
Making Sense of Stories
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence
Culture in Action
The Iron Cage Revisited
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Competing Institutions
How Culture Mattered at Vatican II
Social movements, field frames and industry emergence
Ending the Family Quarrel
The Powers of Association
The Manufacture of Knowledge
Asylums
The `Moralities' of Poaching
Ethnographic Contributions to Organizational Sociology
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Politics and Institutionalism
The Dark Side of Organizations
Measuring Meaning Structures
On the Virtues of the Old Institutionalism
The Humble and the Proud
The Typical Tools for the Job
Social Skill and the Theory of Fields
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization
The Construction of a Global Profession
Object Lessons
Institutional Change in Toque Ville
What Is Agency
World Society and the Nation-State
The Legalization of the Workplace
A Theory of Structure
Conflict Management, Honor, and Organizational Change
Legal Environments and Organizational Governance
From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes
Social Movements in Organizations
Institutionalized Organizations
Inhabited Institutions
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |