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Responding to change: internal and external factors in organizational success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2010

THOMAS S. ULEN
THOMAS S. ULEN*
Affiliation:
College of Law, University of Illinois, Illinois, United States
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Abstract:

In order for organizations to adopt procedures and structures that efficiently serve their goals, they need to overcome predictable errors in individual and group judgment and decisionmaking and to distinguish ephemeral from significant environmental changes. I seek to identify factors internal and external to the organization that contribute to overcoming these two problems. I suggest the modern US research university as a case study of a successful organization.

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Research Article
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 133 - 137
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Copyright © The JOIE Foundation 2010

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