Talking About Organizations Podcast
76: Comparative Analysis of Organizations – Charles Perrow (Part 2)
May 18, 2021
Charles Perrow, author of 'A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations,' discusses the challenges of evaluation in organizations and compares academic work to other organizations. The interconnectedness of factors like identity, structure, and flexibility in shaping organizations is explored, along with the impact of technology on work processes.
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- Organizational research needs to specify the world being studied and move beyond specific settings to develop abstract insights.
- Understanding the dynamics and relationships between social and task structures is crucial in analyzing organizations across different contexts.
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The importance of specifying the world being studied
The podcast emphasizes the need to specify the world being studied in organizational research. It discusses how good papers provide nuanced ways of specifying the world, citing examples of studies on film crews and IT outsourcing. The challenge is to move beyond the specific setting and develop more abstract insights.
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