Organizational structures as recursively constructed systems of agency and constraint: compliance and resistance in the context of structural conditions.

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: Wicks, David | Copyright information

Compliance and resistance are omnipresent in organizational life, both as behavioural responses to the constraining elements of structure, and as the stimulus for redefining existing organizational practices. This suggests that organizational structures and individual behaviours are reciprocally related. A typology of individual behaviours in relation to structural conditions is formulated by juxtaposing the extent to which behaviours accept or challenge existing organizational structures, an...

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