Journal ArticleDOI
A Cultural Theory of Information Bias in Organizations
Michael Thompson,Aaron Wildavsky +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, a cultural theory of organizations is developed, where a central role is played by information rejection, which can follow any of four different styles: risk absorption, networking, paradigm protection, or expulsion.Abstract:
Organizations show an essential cultural pluralism. Taking this into account, we aim at developing a cultural theory of organizations. A central role in this theory is played by information rejection, which can follow any of four different styles: risk absorption, networking, paradigm protection, or expulsion. These can be related to different types of organizational cultures, in particular to markets, hierarchies, and sects. Different kinds of information bias institutionalize different kinds of leadership.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Instituting the marketing concept in a multinational setting: The role of national culture
Cheryl Nakata,K. Sivakumar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the marketing concept, the heart of the market orientation, may be established in a multinational setting and the effects of national culture on that process.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dynamics of performance measurement and organizational culture
TL;DR: The dynamic relationship between performance measurement, management styles and organisational culture, in order to develop a better understanding of the causal linkages between these three areas is modeled.
Book
The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research
TL;DR: The political functions of knowledge and organizational legitimacy of knowledge are discussed in this paper, where they are used to explain the uses of knowledge in public policy debates in the UK and Germany.
Journal ArticleDOI
The inertial impact of culture on IT implementation
TL;DR: A theoretical case is made concerning the inertial impact of culture on IT implementation and some theoretical linkages among various cultures and different ITs are demonstrated.
Journal ArticleDOI
The techniques of risk analysis are insufficient in themselves
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the techniques of risk analysis are necessary but in themselves insufficient components of the management of risk process, and propose a definition of the term risk analysis, suggesting that the term refers to the sum of risk identification, estimation, and evaluation.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans.
TL;DR: The transactions cost approach provides such a framework because it allows us to identify the conditions which give rise to the costs of mediating exchanges between individuals: goal incongruence and performance ambiguity.
Book ChapterDOI
Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice
TL;DR: In this paper, a student asked whether it was conceivable that the practical procedures for decision-making implicit in rational theories of choice might make actual human decisions worse rather than better, and he asked whether human choice is improved by knowledge of decision theory or by application of various engineering forms of rational choice.
Journal ArticleDOI
What does the Schema Concept Buy us
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conclude that the strengths of the schema framework more than outweigh the liabilities associated with these criticisms, and conclude that it is more suitable for real social phenomena than old wine in a new bottle.
Journal ArticleDOI
How People Organize the Political World: A Schematic Model
TL;DR: In this paper, a schema-based model of political belief systems based on recent research in social and cognitive psychology is developed, and the results provide consistent support for the general predictions of schema theory as applied to political beliefs.
Journal ArticleDOI
Schema Theory: An Information Processing Model of Perception and Cognition
TL;DR: An information-processing model to describe this aspect of perception and cognition of how people make sense out of a complex world can be directly relevant to the study of important political processes.