Carolina QuotesFor wide classes of organizations there are very strong inertial pressures on structure arising from both internal arrangements (for example, internal politics) and from the environment (for example, public legitimation of organizational activity). To claim otherwise is to ignore the most obvious feature of organizational life. Failing churches do not become retail stores nor do firms transform themselves into churches.
Michael T. Hannan Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 957
- work
- "The Population Ecology of Organizations," 1977
- year
- 1977
- locator
- p. 957
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