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The Emerging Political Perception of Organizations: Two Paradigms
Author(s) -
Banner David K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8691.1995.tb00199.x
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , premise , politics , transformational leadership , control (management) , power (physics) , perception , sort , public relations , business , sociology , law and economics , marketing , economics , political science , epistemology , management , law , computer science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , information retrieval
This article examines the premise that increasing concentration of power in large, multinational organizations will eventually necessitate the political control of such organizations to ensure the interests and well‐being, however defined, of their host countries. This view assumes that centralized control is necessary to prevent abuses of power by private organizations who are not necessarily concerned with the public good. Another view is the anarchist paradigm, where it is assumed that people and groups, left to sort things out among themselves, will eventually produce outcomes beneficial for the whole. Aligned with this approach is the transformational or emerging paradigm. I will examine the assumptions that underlie each paradigm and leave the reader to decide their relative validity.