Outdated organizational partitions persist through tradition despite losing relevance

Evidence

Partition focus can be an especially insidious problem when the partitioning logic reflects idiosyncratic factors that no longer “map” onto current realities or needs (e.g., organizational divisions or norms that may no longer be relevant yet have the weight of tradition, precedent, and history behind them). For example, although the separation of national security threats as a function of their domestic versus foreign origins may have made considerable sense during the Second World War and again during the Cold War, these distinctions may no longer make sense in the global commons. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992
• XREF: connects to: Institutional legacies persist after the conditions that produced them vanish — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 106; Rhetorical renunciation of the past alone fails unless paired with organizational change — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 432; Inherited organizational templates remain dominant only while cheaper than alternatives — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 89 (+1 more)