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The Emergence of the Egalitarian Organization

Suresh Srivastval

Department of Organizational Behavior

David L. Cooperrider

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

This paper develops an egalitarian theory of organizing, a theory which is premised on the emergence of an interhuman logic that transcends instrumental or techno-economic rationality as a basis for collective action. An interhuman logic, it is proposed, is one that seeks to create and maintain social-organizational arrangements that heighten or maximize the ideal membership situation for all members of a given organization. Through an "appreciative" analysis of field data collected from a world-reknowned medical group practice, propositions are developed which seek to explain and extend the implications of an interhuman logic for understanding the potential of participatory systems.

Human Relations, Vol. 39, No. 8, 683-724 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678603900801
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