ABSTRACT
Many of those who have argued for comparison to be made between organizations in different societies see this as a method of bringing cultural differences into sharper focus. They believe that socio-cultural influences will be strongly manifested in patterns of organizational behaviour. Crozier, for example, in commenting on the lack of such comparisons, has stated that
Intuitively people have always assumed that bureaucratic structures and patterns of action differ in the different countries of the Western world and even more markedly between East and West. Men of action know it and never fail to take it into account (1964, p. 210).
