When cargo cult thinking applies to organizational structure, it's called mimetic isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_isomorphism https://en.wikip

When cargo cult thinking applies to organizational structure, it's called mimetic isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_isomorphism. There's nothing inherently fake about that, but contextual factors might make it inappropriate, whether or not the raison d'etre of a particular org structure is understood by the participants. Art institutions in peripheral cities are often victims of mimetic isomorphism. They try to emulate what institutions in major art centres are doing, but without the supporting thick soup of intellectual and artistic talent.