REPLY TO KATZ.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lincoln, James; Olson, Jon; Hanada, Mitsuyo
- Source
- American Sociological Review; Aug79, Vol. 44 Issue 4, p668-668, 1/3p
- Subject
- ORGANIZATIONAL behavior
POLITICAL autonomy
ORGANIZATION
EMPLOYEES
STUDENTS
- Language
- ISSN
- 00031224
This article presents the authors reply about the article written by Fred E. Katz, a university professor. In his article Katz argues that students of cultural influences on organizational structures should adopt a model of organizations which explicitly recognizes that employees possess the autonomy to import and export cultural beliefs and values across organizational boundaries. If there is any real point of contention between Katz and ourselves it hinges on his implication that our neglect of the autonomy question accounts for our failure to find cultural effects on certain structural dimensions. This perplexes us. Unless be means that we might have included some measure of autonomy in our regressions or otherwise re-specified them in conformity with a culture-via-autonomy model, it is hard for us to grasp the sense in which our results might have proved different.