The Power of Obedience
研究组织角色如何为权力行使提供道德框架,指出组织权力源于对角色规范的服从,并以里根和布朗州长政府的访谈数据为例。
Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton Organizational roles provide actors with moral constructs for the enactment of power. Indeed, actors evaluate each other's acts of power in part on the willingness to obey role prescriptions. For a person to sustain power in an organizational setting he or she must self-consciously exercise power so as to signify the awareness of role obligations. Organizational power, paradoxically, stems from obedience to roles. The authors illustrate these points with interview data from a study of the gubernatorial administrations of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown.