Civilizing and Informalizing: Organizations in an Eliasian Context
运用埃利亚斯的长期社会过程理论，分析国家形成等宏观发展与行为、道德等微观变化的联系，并通过法国文明与德国文化的价值对比及非正式化趋势，探讨其对组织行为和工作情感规范的影响。
In this paper, we argue that an Eliasian approach is significant because of its long-term study of social processes and its attempt to show the intricate connection between macro-societal developments, such as state formation, and micro-level changes in manners, morals and mentalities. The paper illustrates the relevance of this perspective for organization studies through a discussion of one `nation-specific' and one `overarching' trend in the western civilizing process. The nation-specific trend relates to the value contrast between French civilization and German Kultur, and its impact upon national industrialization and organizational behaviour. The overarching trend relates to `informalization' processes and their effect on organizational integration and emotion codes at work.