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Title: | Comparative analysis of social movement organization | ||||
Author: | Abravanel, H. |
ISNI:
0000 0001 3391 9820
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Awarding Body: | Manchester Business School | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Manchester | ||||
Date of Award: | 1977 | ||||
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The objective of this research is to develop and empirically test
a comparative organization analysis approach to the interpretation of
structural outcomes in social movement organizations (HJs). Various
patterns of MO characteristics are empirically described and subsequently
interpreted within a conceptual scheme and typology of different
organizations. Empirical data is employed to clarify and test the
proposed conceptual framework using a systematic approach that is largely
exploratory and descriptive.
This research can be labelled as a comparative, organizational-level,
survey analysis of MOs. Three pivotal variables are identified:
relationship to environment, size, and centralization of decision making.
A three-way cross-classification forms a typology of 12 "goal and task
structures". The typology is analytically integrated within a conceptual
framework that presumes system properties between external environmental
variables and internal structural variables. Theoretical significance
is.attributed to the role of ideology as an independent variable that
influences systems of relationships in complex ways. The proposed
typology is used to demonstrate theoretical and empirical linkages
between external environmental variables and internal structural variables,
and between ideological and organizational characteristics. In effect,
an empirically based methodology is confirmed as an approach to substantive
theoretical and practical issues.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.446801 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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