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| Author: | Miller, J. |
| Title: | Institutionalized contradictions: trouble in a colonial mission. |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
1991 : VOL. 12:3, p.337-364 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AUTHORITY HISTORY RELIGION GHANA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The Basel Mission is a Pietist evangelical organization that was active in many areas of the colonial world in the nineteenth century, including the Gold Coast of West Africa, now known as Ghana. The Mission's impact was strong in spite of a number of controversies and discouraging circumstances. Its troubles and its persistence came from the same source, namely, a distinctive structure of authority that was anchored simultaneously in charismatic, traditional, and rational-legal understandings about discipline. It is documented and analyzed how the Mission survived despite of the contradictions. The research encourages comparisons with similar and other kinds of commitment organizations that are participants in other historical circumstances. |
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