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To conceptualize complex social organizations comprising heterogeneous organizing modes and identify how institutional actors manage the resulting structural incongruence.

January 1, 1998Public Administration

Complex Social Organization: Multiple Organizing Modes, Structural Incongruence, and Mechanisms of Integration

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NMNora MachadoIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa TBTom BurnsIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

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Theoretical analysis reveals mechanisms resolving structural incongruence in multi-institutional complexes, indicating non-rational foundations sustain organizational social order.

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To conceptualize complex social organizations comprising heterogeneous organizing modes and identify how institutional actors manage the resulting structural incongruence.
Conducted a theoretical sociological analysis examining multi-institutional complexes that integrate markets, hierarchies, and informal networks.
Characterized the normative orders, social logics, and boundary tensions generated across intersecting organizing modes.
Identified institutional strategies, interactional practices, and specialized roles used to mediate structural friction.
Identified structural incongruence and tension occurring systematically at the junctures of divergent organizing modes within complex organizations.
Demonstrated that actors manage friction through non-instrumental integration mechanisms, including social rituals, non-task-oriented discourses, and mediating roles.
Established that organizational social order and rational decision-making rely fundamentally on non-rational, informal institutional foundations.

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Machado et al. (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a104ce68090e499da60f0e1 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00105

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Theoretical analysis reveals mechanisms resolving structural incongruence in multi-institutional complexes, indicating non-rational foundations sustain organizational social order.

Complex Social Organization: Multiple Organizing Modes, Structural Incongruence, and Mechanisms of Integration

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