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- Title
The Disintegration of an Organization: A Dialectical Analysis.
- Authors
Grimes, A. J.; Cornwall, J. R.
- Abstract
Innisfree, an alternative free school (K-8), existed for about 4 years. Ideographic methodology and dialectical analysis indicates the values and ideology of Innisfree members and the collectivist structure of the school led to ideological and structural contradictions. Ideology constrained structural and process changes has contributed to the school's disintergration. Organization leaders and members were unaware of the contradictions and hence they could not be overcome.
- Subjects
FREE schools; ORGANIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology); THEORY of knowledge; PSYCHOLOGY; IDEOLOGY; THOUGHT &; thinking; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Journal of Management, 1987, Vol 13, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0149-2063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014920638701300106