ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AT THE CROSSROADS - SOME REFLECTIONS ON EUROPEAN AND UNITED-STATES APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH

Organizational research in Europe and the United States differs in sty le and substance. Viewed comparatively, important inter-continental di fferences persist in theory, method, and problem. However, viewed long itudinally, convergence of the two traditions over the last decade is striking. Forces for the historic separation and contemporary converge nce of European and United States organizational theory derive from ch anging institutional patterns affecting the social location, training, mobility, and rewards of scholars on the two continents.