Business and Government: Article Review and Literature Analysis

This report is an article review of "They Are All Organizations": The Cultural Roots of Blurring Between the Non-profit, Business, and Government Sectors, by Bromley and Meyer. The review focuses on the authors' use of sociological institutionalism to explain the cultural shifts blurring the lines between these sectors. The article explores how organizations, once distinct, are reshaped by cultural changes emphasizing individual rights and the application of scientific ideologies. The review highlights the authors' argument that current theories inadequately interpret the transition and emphasizes the increasing complexity of social structures. The report also references related literature on hybrid organizations and the evolution of the non-profit sector. The author helps us to understand that cultural shifts create three-way ambiguity between industries. First of all, scientific and human rights and equality values are fundamental. Secondly, the way science and rights are structured cuts through antique social frameworks that make them look identical. Thirdly, the ever-increasing similarity in content and form makes it easier to make real interconnects between social types.

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Review of: They Are All Organizations: The Cultural Roots of Blurring
Between the Non-profit, Business, and Government Sectors
In this article, Bromley and Meyer focus on the sociological institutionalism ideas to
incorporate a cultural description for the blurring between several traditional sectors. While
discussing the same the non-profit sectors mainly taken into consideration along with the
changes in culture.
The hierarchical constructions of once dissimilar organizations such as religious
associations, hospitals, schools, family businesses and state bodies, which have been called
organizations, are reshaped in analogy units in an increasingly abstract order. According to
management guru, Peter Drucker the current day’s organization’ was born about 1950, connoting
a limited business (Drucker 1992). In this article, it has been written that the organization comes
from two major cultural changes, first, which say that individuals as empowered social actors
have great rights and skills, and secondly, the application of scientific ideologies covering the
usual and communal environment may and should cope social activities. The definition states
that an organization is a combination of authoritative rights and scientific judiciousness, but not
old organizations. For example, public service may be delivered by the government through a
centralized bureaucracy, but it should be delivered by a voluntary agency with several parties
involved. Thus, all over the world, every sector takes a new shape through this universalistic
cultural principles.
Current ‘blurring’ theoretical accounts between industry boundaries are inadequate and
often misinterpret transition. Contrary to these normative claims, in the neo-institutional tradition
sociological claims have been drawn by the authors that find formal organizations to be partly

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cultural objects (Sadabadi and Azimi 2019). The ‘blurring’ between sectors is best defined as an
extensive development of the distinct tasks and objectives that make all the social structures
formally more complex. Some of the illustrating ideas work partly, but they are too limited to
address the full extent and complexity of the related social changes.
Most importantly, the authors did not develop a normative or prescriptive structure
through this article for managing voluntary organizations or providing public services. Rather,
both the authors analyse very critically the current definitions of ‘blurring lines’ and offer
additional consideration for the eradication of discrepancies between formerly separate entities.
The literature explains how conventional distinctions between industry, government, and
charity have blurred. Numerous studies are reporting on the emergence and combination of many
logics within organizations, such as the formation of hybrid organizations (Laitinen and
Ruusuvirta 2019). Nonetheless, less consideration is paid to the fact that the entire blurring is
correlated with the unprecedented expansion of authorized organization per se and is a result of it
from the Second World War in terms of numbers and inside difficulty in all welfare sectors and
national contexts.
The theoretical models of the non-profit sectors were advanced in the 1970s which
includes charitable trusts, NGOs and orphans. As a result, non-profit sectors will look for a new
revenue source and use market-based strategies because of the rising demand for their services
(McDonnell, Mohan and Norman 2020).
The author helps us to understand that cultural shifts create three-way ambiguity between
industries. First of all, scientific and human rights and equality values are fundamental.
Secondly, the way science and rights are structured cuts through antique social frameworks that

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make them look identical. Thirdly, the ever-increasing similarity in content and form makes it
easier to make real interconnects between social types.

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Reference
Laitinen, H. and Ruusuvirta, M., 2019. What makes Third Sector Organizations a species of its
own?. ISTR Working Paper Series.
McDonnell, D., Mohan, J. and Norman, P., 2020. Charity Density and Social Need: A
Longitudinal Perspective. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, p.0899764020911199.
Sadabadi, A.A. and Azimi, A., 2019. An Evaluation Model for Organizational
Vulnerability. Public Organizations Management, 7(4), pp.97-110.