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| Author: | Nelson, R. E. |
| Title: | Organization-environment isomorphism, rejection, and substitution in brazilian protestantism. |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
1989 : VOL. 10:2, p. 207-224 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONS ENVIRONMENT BRAZIL RELIGION INTERDEPENDENCY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Mainline organization theory generally presumes that organizations tend toward ever greater "fit" or isomorphism with their environments. Much of current organization theory also stresses the rational-legal bases of organization at the expense of charismatic and traditional authority. It is shown that religious organizations in the third world provide a most likely setting for the discovery of non-bureaucratic organizations and non-isomorphic responses to the environment. Two non-isomorphic responses to the environment - rejection and substitution - were found in a study of 200 Brazilian communities. Bureaucratic, patron-client and kinship churches were identified and their non-isomorphic responses to the environments were separately analyzed. |
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