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Organizational longevity and technological change
Terence C. KrellServes as an introduction to the special issue on organizational longevity published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management. The issues of researching and writing…
Translating a dream of immortality in a (con)temporary order
Lena PorsanderDiscusses the process of imitation using the vocabulary of translation, taking as an example the temporary organization Stockholm – Cultural Capital of Europe 1998. Describes the…
How long do things last?
Gib AkinJust what is the “self”, the core identity of an organization whose longevity we might want to study? What is it that persists, that has the longevity we are trying to explain…
Staying on top: characteristics of long‐term survival
Ingrid BonnReports the results of an empirical study investigating the key factors that affected the survival of large manufacturing organizations between 1982 and 1993 in Australia. Four…
Metapopulation analysis: a technique for studying hyperlongevity
Gregory N.P. Konz, Jerome A. KatzSuggests a method for studying the survival strategies employed by organizations that exhibit hyperlongevity, the ability to survive 250 years or more. Hyperlongevity is a theory…
Organizational longevity ‐ Integrating systems thinking, learning and conceptual complexity
L.A. MontuoriAn examination of organizational Darwinism – survival of the fittest – via systems theory provides the foundation for a related analysis of the learning organization and the kinds…
From threat‐rigidity to flexibility ‐ Toward a learning model of autogenic crisis in organizations
Carole K. Barnett, Michael G. PrattComplementing prior research by Staw et al. (“Threat‐rigidity effects in organizational behavior: a multilevel analysis”, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 4, 1981…
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