Organized dependence examines how reliance on workplace authorities across several domains makes communication materially consequential. Walder’s analysis directs attention to resources, discretion, and relationships before interpreting silence or deference, while requiring historical evidence rather than assumptions about national culture or individual motives.
- Entry typeRelated entry
- FromDanwei — Chinese Work-Unit Institution (model)
- Category of its source unitGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.