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Organizational Adaptations to Changing Cultural Contingencies *
Author(s) -
GILLESPIE David F.,
MILETI Dennis S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1976.tb00758.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , sociology , organizational structure , character (mathematics) , epistemology , organizational studies , knowledge management , organizational learning , political science , computer science , geography , law , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
An integrated conceptual framework acceptable across different disciplines and theoretical perspectives is presented. The scheme promotes one aspect of organizational environments, the cultural context, as crucial to explaining organizational structure or behavior. By crosstabulating member consensus and community consensus consistent predictions regarding survival, “character,” and goal behavior are achieved for a diverse range of case studies. It is suggested, therefore, that community consensus be treated as a common denominator in future attempts to ferret out the necessary and sufficient conditions associated with particular organizational structures and behaviors.