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| Author: | Brunsson, N. |
| Title: | Ideas and actions: justification and hypocrisy as alternatives to control |
| Journal: | Accounting, Organizations and Society
1993 : AUG, VOL. 18:6, p. 489-506 |
| Index terms: | CONTROL HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS TIME |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Popular hierarchical models of organizations and societies contain two assumptions about the relation between the ideas of constituencies and leaders on the one hand and organizational, and societal actions on the other: that ideas and actions are consistent, and that ideas control actions. In this article some practical difficulties in achieving consistency are discussed. Consistency is difficult to achieve when what can be done cannot be said and vice versa, and control is difficult to combine with consistency when ideas change more rapidly than action. |
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