Comparing organizations: Empirical and theoretical issues

Abstract

If one examines the changing nature of organizations and the contexts in which they operate over the past half-century, a number of developments have worked to soften and erode early distinctions around which much comparative research was conducted. Three types of changes encourage convergence.

Citation

Scott, W.R. (2009), "Comparing organizations: Empirical and theoretical issues", King, B.G., Felin, T. and Whetten, D.A. (Ed.) Studying Differences between Organizations: Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2009)0000026004