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Organizational Metapaiterns

Tacit Relationships in Organizational Culture

Guy B. Adams

University of Missouri-Columbia

Recurring tacit patterns of relationships, called here metapatterns, represent an important, but largely neglected, focus for researchers interested in organizational culture. How metapatterns emerge and how they manifest themselves in organizational behavior is discussed at some length. Metapatterns, which comprise the tacit level of interpersonal and group interaction in organizations, are linked to other levels of analysis. The implications of metapatterns for the study of organizations are examined.

Administration & Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, 139-159 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/009539979302500201
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