The Organization of Hypocrisy

Part 1 Organizations and inconsistent norms: institutional environments; inconsistent environments. Part 2 The political organization principle: the ideal type of action organization; the ideal type of political organization; organizations in the real world - politics and action; politics in organizational processes. Part 3 Politics in practice: attempts at action produce politics; politics again; inconsistencies in ideologies and roles; the dominance of politics. Part 4 Decisions as transition between politics and action: the case of Greaton; decision-makers as defensive scrutineers; opinion-making; implementation; decision-makers as bearers of responsibility. Part 5 Responsibility as an impediment to influence - the case of budgeting: budgeting; budgeting under stagnation; roles and actors in the budget process; the allocation of responsibility; control - supply and demand; budgeting as an instrument for external financing. Part 6 The responsible organization: society as hierarchy; implementation or legitimation; an illustration; Stanby - implementation or legitimation?; the role of politics. Part 7 Projects and organizations: two projects; strategies for meeting external demands - delegation, rationality and ideology. Part 8 Ideas, decisions and actions in organizations: ideas and actions; alternative interpretations of organizational decision-making; decision-making and the allocation of responsibility; decisions as legitimation; four roles of decisions. Part 9 The dynamics of hypocrisy: the paradoxes of presentation and result; public organizations and the publicness of organizations; implications for organizational stakeholders.