change as well. This fluid process of ongoing change and regrouping is reminiscent at the organizational level of the boundaryless organizational structure used at GE under Jack Welch, where rigid organizational boundaries disappeared and teams grouped and regrouped in different ways according to their task of the moment.
Rules are paradoxically another salient feature that the authors identify as characteristic of the new institution. They define rules as "routines, procedures, conventions, roles, strategies, organizational forms, and technologies around which political activity is constructed" and explain that they "also mean the beliefs, paradigms, codes, cultures, and knowledge that surround, support, elaborate, and contradict those roles and routines" (March & Olsen, 1989, p. 22). Rules seems to militate against the first
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