The Legalistic Organization: Definitions, Dimensions, and Dilemmas

Sim B. Sitkin and Robert J. Bies
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Sim B. Sitkin: Graduate School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
Robert J. Bies: School of Business Administration, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

Organization Science, 1993, vol. 4, issue 3, 345-351

Abstract: The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell, there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.Grant Gilmore ( The Ages of American Law 1977, p. 111)

Keywords: legalization; legalistic organizations; law; organizations; paradoxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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