Showing papers by "Danny Miller published in 1981"
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that there exist complex Gestalts among environmental, organizational, and strategy-making variables, and that these Gestalt are relatively few and very different from one another both in terms of the scores of, and relationships among, variables.
Abstract: 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].
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: The Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel as mentioned in this paper is a book about the problems of closure in the traditional novel, with a focus on narrative and its discontinuities.
Abstract: The Description for this book, Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel, will be forthcoming.
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