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Approaches that suffer from specification error and unwarranted generalizations are predominant among students of organizational adaptation and have resulted in fragmented and conflicting findings. The simplistic assumptions about organizations implicit in these approaches constrain the predictive power of findings and often prevent insights. It is argued that there exist complex Gestalts among environmental, organizational, and strategy‐making variables, and that these Gestalts are relatively few and very different from one another both in terms of the scores of, and relationships among, variables. The Gestalts are expected to allow a richer, more complex, and multifaceted characterization of the process by which organizations adapt and change. They may also constitute enough structure in the data to yield more predictive findings. Some methodological approaches for identifying Gestalts are discussed [1

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00088.x

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年代:1981

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00089.x

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年代:1981

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This paper describes research concerned with assisting groups in organizations handle their complex, ill‐structured policy issues in ways which we believe are significantly different from many typical policy analysis projects. It is our belief that many systems research, operational research and management science projects have concentrated on ‘objective’, usually quantitative data at the expense of losing their clients' interest and commitment. Our work is concerned with taking account of intersubjectivity in policy analysis and evaluation. It is orientated to the construction of models that will be owned by our clients because they recognize as legitimate, and explicitly take account of, the subjective and particular knowledge of individuals within organizations. They also explicitly take account of the interaction of shared and individual knowledge as a group comes to define an intersubjective group

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00090.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00091.x

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年代:1981

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ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00092.x

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年代:1981

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the attitudes to the merger of all the staff of the newly merged firm, with a view to discovering something more about the merger process. The paper begins with a brief description of the industry and is followed by a history of the merger. Then comes an analysis of the questionnaire administered by the researcher to all members of the firm. The analysis shows that there are four crucial stages in the merger: the Planning stage, at which the details of the merger have to be worked out; the Anxious stage, during which the people concerned are apprehensive about the merger; the Merger itself; and the Evaluation stage, at which what has been done is weighed in the balance of cost‐effectiveness. The paper ends with an attempt to add a new dimension to the dynamics of organization change, showing the interrelationships of the Harrison model, and suggesting possible routes through i

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00093.x

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Book reviewed in this articleCooper, C. L. and PayneChichester: John Wiley&SonsCooper. C. L. and Payne. R.Chichester: John Wiley&SonsDavis, L. E. and TaylorSanta Monica, California: Goodyear Publishing Co. Inc.Schein, E. H.Organizational PsychologyWatson, T. J. SociologyLondon: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980. ppMiles, R. H.Macro Organizational BehaviorHemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall InternationalMiles, R. H.Macro Organizational BehaviorHemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall InternationalCooper, C. L.The Executive Gypsy: The Quality of Managerial LifeLondon: Macmillan PressSell, R. G. and Shipley, P. (Eds.)Satisfactions in Work DesignBasingstoke: Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1979. pp. 202Davis, L. E. and TaylorSanta Monica, California: Goodyear Publishing Co.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00094.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00095.x

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年代:1981

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