ABSTRACT
Power in the party is seen as the negotiated control of ‘zones of uncertainty’, ‘competencies’ which ‘go beyond the limits that divide the managerial group from other organisational actors’, such as internal communication, environmental relations, financing, recruitment and formal or informal rules. The question of different rationalities existing within the one organisation forces consideration of the incentives employed to achieve more or less collective action. Adequate explanation must focus on the complex element that intervenes between the environment and the behavior of human beings: creation and change in common meanings through symbolic apprehension in groups of people of interests, pressures, threats, and possibilities. Cultural Theory is grounded in the idea that ways of seeing the world and ways of organising are inextricably and reciprocally linked. Cultural Theory holds that in every social unit all of the ways of life continue – even in attenuated form – to co-exist.
