Toward the Study of Organizational Coalitions: Participant Concerns and Activities in a Simulated Organizational Setting
通过模拟组织情境的定性实验，研究联盟形成过程，发现参与者关注点、目标和行为比以往研究更广泛，对组织政治和变革研究有启示。
A qualitative laboratory research design is used to study coalition formation within the simulated context of a formal organization. The scenario used focuses on an issue shown to produce political activity: executive succession. A content analytic approach was used to analyze the ideas, perceptions, and actions of the participants as reported by themselves. Results indicate that the process of coalition formation involves a much wider range of concerns, objectives, and interconnected behaviors than suggested by previous research on coalition formation. These are presented and implications for future research and theory building are discussed.