The Limits of Organizational Change

by Kaufman,Herbert

• ISBN13: 9781560007685
• ISBN10: 1560007680
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The environment of modern organizations is so complex and volatile that we take for granted that organizational change is necessary for organizational survival. Yet the literature on organizations has for years described manifold obstacles to such change. First published in 1971, this book extracts from that literature and from experience a comprehensive yet concise overview of those barriers. Because these elements of the analysis are as valid now as when they were originally written, The Limits of Organizational Change is still widely read and cited nearly a quarter-century later.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Why Organizations Tend Not to Change	p. 5
But Organizations Do Change	p. 41
Why Change is Damped	p. 68
Some Theoretical Implications of the Argument	p. 92
Appendix: Organizational Death	p. 114
Notes	p. 119
Index	p. 123
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