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Development of Organizations Over Time (Child, Kieser, 1981)

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John Child, Alfred Kieser

In: Nystrom, Starbuck, Handbook of Organization Design, vol. 1, 1981

p.28 Organizations are continually changing... Change in an organization's condition constitutes organizational development.

p.28 Although development can be considered as the natural mode of organizational behavior, there is no theoretical consensus as to which forces generate development or hold it back.

p.44 The enhancement of flexibility depends upon the acquiring of good intelligence about external changes, and upon the capacity of an organization to process this information to make an appropriate response.