“Institutionalization is a process. It is something that happens to an organization over time, reflecting the organization’s own distinctive history, the people who have been in it, the groups it embodies and the vested interests they have created, and the way it has adapted to its environment.”

—  Philip Selznick

Source: Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation, 1957, p. 34 (in 2011 edition)

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