Amitai Etzioni

Thinkers1929 to 2023Sociologist

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

The compliance typology of organizations and communitarianism.

Ideas

Normative organizations. Organizations in which normative power is the major source of control over most lower participants, whose orientation to the organization is high commitment, as against coercive organizations, which rest on coercion, and utilitarian ones, which rest on remuneration. Caveat: A typology for comparison; only passages of the book were read.

In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.

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