Administrative reforms are sometimes perceived as dramatic organizational changes solving administrative problems once and for all. In this article, it is argued that reforms reflect organizational stability more than organizational change. Reforms are driven by problems, solutions and...

This article looks at the way homogeneity and heterogeneity arise in the forms adopted by organizations. It is argued that under modern conditions a traditional diffusion model is not always very useful in helping us to understand such processes. As an alternative a "cropping-up" model of...

Most theories about organizations assume implicitly or explicitly that the members of organizations are individual persons. However, a large and growing number of organizations are "meta-organizations" whose members are other organizations. How organizations function is affected by the kind of...

Administrative reforms are sometimes perceived as dramatic organizational changes solving administrative problems once and for all. In this article it is argued that reforms reflect organizational stability more than organizational change. Reforms are driven by problems, solutions and...

Over the last few decades the field of organization studies has expanded rapidly. It has come to cover almost any social process within the realm of formal organizations. It has imported a great many new theories and ideas from other social sciences such as institutionalism, network theory or...