Authority, Organization, and Societal Context in Multinational Churches
回顾韦伯的三种合法权威类型（理性合法、传统、魅力型），通过比较美国与巴西的三个跨国教会案例，探讨权威类型、组织形式、社会环境与组织结果之间的关系，对韦伯理论和制度理论提出启示。
Thanks are due to Thomas Burger, Cindy Lindsay, Monty Lynn, William McKinley, William McCusker, Charles Stubbart, Charles Vance, Rys Williams, and the reviewers for their helpful comments. While most research on authority in organizations has been limited to rational-legal bureaucracies, this paper reviews Weber's three pure types of legitimate authority-rational-legal, traditional, and charismatic-and explores the relationship between authority type, organizational form, societal environment, and organizational outcomes for three multinational churches. The paper compares and contrasts the Christian Congregations, the Assemblies of God, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormon) in the U.S. and Brazil, each denomination typifying a different Weberian type of authority but coexisting in the same social and institutional environment. Implications of these cases for both Weberian and institutional theory are then developed, and propositions are advanced that might be used in future research.'