STRUCTURAL UNIFORMITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FACTORIES IN BRITAIN, JAPAN, AND SWEDEN

This paper presents one main finding of a three-nation comparative study of organizations matched for size and products. Our original intent was to demonstrate the extent to which the nation or the culture it represents matters as a determinant of organizational structure. When the study was first planned in 1972, there were two factors that had been shown to have effects on structure: size and technology.