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Crozier's Perspective on Illegitimate Power: An Exposition and Application

Michel Crozier's ideas about organizational dynamics have been avail able in English for almost twenty years, but Americans have tended to regard them as artifacts of the French culture and have not applied them to organizational life in the United States. A premise of this article is that both comparative and provincially American studies can be enhanced through attention to the Crozierian perspective. Central elements of Crozier's theory of "illegitimate power" are abstracted, and the applica tions of Crozier's viewpoint to American settings are evaluated. Findings from a study of an American university are discussed as they bear on the theory.

Group & Organization Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, 304-316 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/105960117800300304


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