The experience and understanding of the
paid staff of NSOs identify good performance
with a structure characterized by increased
professionalization and bureaucratization.
However, such a structure is blocked not
only by the amateur orientation of the leaders
but also by pervasive institutional rules
(i.e. outdated by-laws), which recognize and
reward volunteer-controlled decision-making
structures and ad hoc responses to organizational
problems. This is in accordance with
what Meyer and Rowan (1991) and DiMaggio
and Powell (1991) have repeatedly observed,
that institutionally prescribed structures
have little in common with structures which
facilitate performance.