Thompson, James R. <br/><br/>
The reinvention laboratories :  strategic change by indirection 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> The reinvention laboratories created as part of the National Performance Review represent a novel approach to strategic change in the federal government. In assigning an important role to middle management in the design and implementation of new work technologies, the lab program constrasts with more conventional appraoches to change in which top management is dominant. This study examines the viability of the generative model that the lab program represents as a means of inducting agencies to employ postbureaucratic organizing principles. A conclusion is that although a variety of factors will affect the degreee of sucess archieved, the model holds promise as a means of achieving strategic change in public organizations