THE MANDATE IS STILL BEING HONORED - IN DEFENSE OF WEBERS DISCIPLES

In assessing the range and penetration of recent organizational schola rship, Stern and Barley give too much attention and weight to work tha t appears in the core organizational journals and not enough to work r eported in broader social science journals, in journals devoted to spe cialized arenas such as education and medical care, and to the book li terature. A survey of this broader domain suggests that organizational researchers continue to honor Weber's legacy and to explore the impac t of societies on organizations and of organizational structures and p rocesses on the functioning of societies..