From Ritual to Reality: Demography, Ideology, and Decoupling in a Post-Communist Government Agency
通过后共产主义政府机构的定性案例研究，揭示组织脱耦（正式政策与实际做法之间的差距）如何随时间演变，以及组织成员的人口结构和意识形态如何影响脱耦的发生、展开和可持续性。
Decoupling—the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices—is ubiquitous in organizations. Yet little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over time. This qualitative case study of a post-Communist government agency develops process models of what precedes and what follows the decision to decouple. I show that the demography and ideology of powerful organization members influence whether decoupling occurs, how it unfolds, and whether it is sustainable. Further, I suggest decoupling may carry seeds of its own decay: under certain conditions, the decision to decouple can trigger demographic changes that eventually erode decoupling.