The Place of Culture in Organization Theory: Introducing the Morphogenetic Approach
基于已有理论发展，引入形态发生方法，主张文化可像结构一样被理论化，具有不可还原的力量和属性，能影响组织成员的行动方向，对研究文化变迁或稳定的学者有参考价值。
As Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) pointed out over a decade ago, the concept of culture seemed to be sliding inexorably into a superficial explanatory pool that promised everything and nothing. However, since then, some sophisticated and interesting theoretical developments have prevented drowning in the pool of superficiality and hence theoretical redundancy. The purpose of this article is to build upon such theoretical developments and to introduce an approach that maintains that culture can be theorized in the same way as structure, possessing irreducible powers and properties that predispose organizational actors towards specific courses of action. The morphogenetic approach is the methodological complement of transcendental realism, providing explanatory leverage on the conditions that maintain for cultural change or stability.