Selection: Implications for Organizational Change

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  • Maria E. Malott
  • Sigrid S. Glenn
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In this paper, we argue that numerous dynamic entities make up organizations and that their complexity can be described systematically. We identify three types of organizational complexity: environmental, component and hierarchical. We define the elements of the contingencies of cultural selection as they apply to organizations and propose that organizational change can be understood in terms of selection processes that are analogous to those of behavioral and natural selection.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005