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Administration & Society, Vol. 17, No. 4, 461-479 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/009539978601700404

Ambiguity and Organizational Analysis

The Consequences of Micro versus Macro Conceptualization

Allan W. Lerner

University of Illinois-Chicago

This article marks out the contrasting assumptions and implications of two prevalent yet implicit approaches to organizational analysis: the micro and macro perspectives. It traces ambiguities in the concepts of organizational power, politics, change, and policymaking to the dual meanings possible for such terms given alternate micro and macro perspectives. Practitioner styles, mirroring micro and macro scholarly orientations are also described.


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