BUS 374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Standard Operating Procedure, Cao Lei, Gameloft

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 374
• Professor: Rajiv Kozhikode

Document Summary

Dimaggio & powell"s, the iron cage revisited, explains why organizations, despite their seemingly different nature, have very apparent similarities. Powell begin their article by introducing the notion of bureaucratization and its impact on the development of organizations. The authors contend that bureaucratization occurs as a result of processes that make organizations more similar without necessarily making them more efficient (dimaggio & powell 147). With the development of technology and the global market, the vast diversity of products along with operations within different cultural settings have placed an emphasis on studying these differences. Powell, however, are interested in why there is such startling homogeneity of organizational forms and practices; and seek to explain homogeneity, not variation (dimaggio & powell 148). They believe that once organizations are competing, they eventually will become more similar to one another without purposely trying to do so. To help explain these phenomena, dimaggio & powell focus on isomorphism which is a.