Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher
and consultant concerned with change in organizations. It shows how choice and change …

Can we improve organizations by shaping their structure and processes? Common sense
and much of organization theory support the view that it is organization itself which …

The population ecology of organizations explores the effects of social and historical
transformations on the world of organizations as well as the role of organizational population …

The jacket of this book shows a man peeping through the shell of the stars and planets to
discern the glorious order behind their complex movements. What he sees is not a simple …

Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

The terms 'evolution'and 'coevolution'are widely used in organization studies but rarely
defined. Often it is unclear whether they refer to single entities or populations. When specific …

Just look back 30 years or so. Important changes have occurred, to be sure, but a Rip Van
Winkle miraculously tranported from a large orga-nization just before World War II to one of …

Our understanding of organizational learning has been handicapped by the failure to
incorporate an adequate conception of organizations. Argyris and Schön (1978) recognized …

Traditionally, organizational evolution has been forgotten and only recently has it been
analyzed by evolutionary theories: evolutionary economics and organizational ecology …