The Dominance of Interest-Value Groups Over Pure Value Groups

Organizations feature a great variety of subgroups--functional areas, academic departments, etc.--that fuse expertise in a particular area with values associated with that area.  By contrast with these "interest-value groups," organizations do not feature much in the way of pure value groups that advocate norms detached from interests, and feature very little indeed in the way of opposing value groups that advocate opposing norms without a connection to interests.  Intuitively, the reason for the predominance of interest-value groups is that they provide a vehicle for harnessing values to the organization's benefit without creating the divisive conflict between values that pure value groups are vulnerable to.