volume 22 issue 2 pages 133-154

THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date1985-03-01
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR5.465
CiteScore18.6
Impact factor6.4
ISSN00222380, 14676486, 25003291
Management of Technology and Innovation
Strategy and Management
Business and International Management
Abstract
Politics and conflict sometimes capture an organization in whole or significant part, giving rise to a form we call the Political Arena. After discussing briefly the system of politics in organizations, particularly as a set of ‘political games’, we derive through a series of propositions four basic types of Political Arenas: the complete Political Arena (characterized by conflict that is intensive and pervasive), the confrontation (conflict that is intensive but contained), the shaky alliance (conflict that is moderate and contained), and the politicized organization (conflict that is moderate but pervasive). the interrelationships among these four, as well as the context of each, are then described in terms of a process model of life cycles of Political Arenas. A final section of the paper considers the functional roles of politics in organizations.
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Mintzberg H. THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA // Journal of Management Studies. 1985. Vol. 22. No. 2. pp. 133-154.
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Mintzberg H. THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA // Journal of Management Studies. 1985. Vol. 22. No. 2. pp. 133-154.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1985.tb00069.x
UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1985.tb00069.x
TI - THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA
T2 - Journal of Management Studies
AU - Mintzberg, Henry
PY - 1985
DA - 1985/03/01
PB - Wiley
SP - 133-154
IS - 2
VL - 22
SN - 0022-2380
SN - 1467-6486
SN - 2500-3291
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@article{1985_Mintzberg,
author = {Henry Mintzberg},
title = {THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA},
journal = {Journal of Management Studies},
year = {1985},
volume = {22},
publisher = {Wiley},
month = {mar},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1985.tb00069.x},
number = {2},
pages = {133--154},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-6486.1985.tb00069.x}
}
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Mintzberg, Henry. “THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA.” Journal of Management Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, Mar. 1985, pp. 133-154. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1985.tb00069.x.