HOW IDEOLOGIES SUPPLANT FORMAL STRUCTURES AND SHAPE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTS
对19家医院的观察揭示了组织意识形态如何通过信念、故事、语言和仪式行为体现并维持，发现和谐的意识形态伴随简单结构，而不和谐的意识形态伴随复杂结构，并通过影响人员和结构来指导组织应对外部威胁。
ABSTRACT Observations of nineteen hospitals show how organizational ideologies are manifested and sustained by beliefs, stories, languages, and ceremonial acts. The data indicate that harmonious ideologies accompany simple structures, but that discordant ones accompany elaborate structures. Through their effects on people and structures, ideologies guide organizations’responses to external threats.