Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
process of accreditation, usually entailing many years of higher education. Persons in authority have had to jump through hoops of fire to achieve their lofty posts—and feel disinclined to pay attention to anyone who has not done the same. Lasting authority, however, resides in institutions rather than in the persons who act and speak on their beha
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Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Under conditions of widespread institutional dysfunction, formal trappings can be disconnected from the core competence with which they are supposedly associated. Sometimes they can even begin to anti-correlate. But assuming the institution in question is not in such a dysfunctional context, the formal trappings of an organization actually do indic... See more
Institutional Failure as Surprise | Samo Burja
most government agencies, public schools, religious institutions, and the military are run based on Conformist-Amber principles and practices.