ABSTRACT

By drawing on the institutional theory literature on management fashions paired with the layering literature, this paper shows how a city organization underwent rapid changes over a decade by continuously adopting fashions. This paper is based on a longitudinal study examining a city organization and its endeavours over ten years, including 108 interviews and about 650 hours of observations. The paper shows how layering and fashion drive each other, and that fashion accelerates the layering process. The paper also shows how organizational actors struggled to realize intentions to change while being held back by previous layers and adopted management fashions.

摘要

通过借鉴有关管理时尚的制度理论文献和分层文献，本文展示了一个城市组织如何通过不断采用时尚来经历十年来的快速变化。本文基于一项纵向研究，考察了一个城市组织及其十年来的努力，包括 108 次采访和大约 650 小时的观察。该论文展示了分层和时尚如何相互驱动，而时尚加速了分层过程。该论文还展示了组织参与者如何在被前几层阻碍并采用管理方式的同时努力实现变革的意图。