Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform
认为组织是社会建构的产物，通过分析公共部门改革如何强化地方身份、等级和理性，将公共实体转变为更完整的组织，解释了改革过程的关键方面。
Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social forms. In this paper, it is argued that recent public-sector reforms can be interpreted as attempts at constructing organizations. Public-sector entities that could formerly be described as agents or arenas have been transformed into `more complete' organizations by installing or reinforcing local identity, hierarchy and rationality. This interpretation helps to explain important aspects of the reform process.