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100	1		_aBROWN, Shona L. _928944
245	1	0	_aThe art of continuous change : _blinking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations
260			_aIthaca : _bJohnson Graduate School of Management, _cMarch 1997
520	3		_aIn contrast to the punctuated equilibruim model of change, this inductive study of multiple-product innovation in six firms in the computer industry examines how organizations engage in continuous change. Comparisons of successful and less-successful firms show, first, sons of successful multiple-product innovation blends limited structure around responsabilities and priorities with extensive communication and design freedom to create improvisation within current project. This combination is neither so strucured that change cannot occur nor so unstructured that chaos ensues. Second, successful firms rely on a wide variety of low-cost probes into the future, including experimental products, futurists, and stratgic alliances. Neither planning nor reacting is as effective. Third, successful firms link the present and future together through rhythmic, time-paced transition processes. We develop the ideas of "semistructures", "links in time", and "sequenced steps" to crystallize the key properties of these continuously changing organizations and to extend thinking about complexity theory, time-paced evolution, and the nature of core capabilities
700	1		_aEISENHARDT, Kathleen M _93194
773	0	8	_tAdministrative Science Quarterly _g42, 1, p. 1-34 _dIthaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, March 1997 _xISSN 00018392 _w
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