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This book started with a question: why are different people in different places and at different times behaving in ways similar enough to allow the groups they form to be called organizations? The question arose from observations of families, friendships, associations, businesses, government, and bureaucracy in the Philippines and China. ‘To protect social relationships’ is the answer I came to. By this is meant that, to preserve their social quality, relationships are transformed psychologically into ‘the organization’.
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‘Society’, ‘association’ and ‘community’ correspond clearly with types of action—the rationally expedient (instrumental), ‘affective’ (the affectual or emotional) and traditional (or habitual).
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Hodder, R. (2018). Introduction. In: Small Business, Big Society. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8875-9_1
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