Many of the positions, policies, programs, and procedures of modern organizations
are enforced by public opinion;• by the Views of important constituents, by
knowledge legitimated through the educational system, by social prestige, by the
laws, and by the definitions of negligence and prudence used by the courts.
Such elements of formal structure are manifestations of powerful institutional
rules which function as highly rationalized myths that are binding on particular
organizations. (1977: 343)