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Responsibility
William B. WolfThe introduction of new systems into companies is illustrated byreal experiences. To get people within the companies to accept andimplement new practices and methods, they must be…
Large Systems Change: Issues Related to the Strategy
Joanne C. Preston, Louw DuToitDiscusses some of the issues that need addressing when a consultantapplies organization development principles to a large system changesuch as South Africa. The 11 issues covered…
Bridging the Gap between Organization Theory and the Practice of Managing Growth: The Dynamic System Planning Model
Lorraine U. HendricksonFor several decades researchers have attempted to explain theprocess of organization growth and development. The various modelsdevised can be divided into roughly two categories…
Organizational Slack and Risk‐taking Behaviour: Tests of Product Pricing Strategy
O. Douglas MosesOrganizational change inevitably involves uncertainty and hencesome risk taking. Tests the relationship between organizational slackand risk taking in organization decision…
Planned Change in an Organized Anarchy: Support for a Postmodernist Perspective
Anthony J. DiBellaPresents data from a study of planned organizational redesign tochallenge several assumptions underlying theories of planned change.Describes and analyses the experience at…
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- Prof Slawomir Magala