Procrustes: A Modern Management Pattern Found in a Classical Myth
通过希腊神话中普罗克鲁斯特斯的比喻，研究瑞典跨组织委员会对私人牙医经济补偿制度的控制现象，揭示标准化如何消除极端并解释组织矛盾。
The phenomenon of social control was investigated in this study of a Swedish interorganizational committee appointed to propose a system of economic compensation for dentists in private practice. A hermeneutic (interpretative) method was used to examine the factors controlling the organization. Understanding of the committee's decisions and arguments became possible by analogy with the figure of Procrustes in the Greek myth of Theseus. The symbol of the Procrustean bed-standardization by removing extremes-explained the observed inconsistencies and contradictions in the committee's actions, thereby revealing the usefulness of myth in understanding organizational processes.