Replying to LO26060 --
You might want to track down:
Miller, Danny, "The Architecture of Simplicity," Academy of Management
Review 18:1 (1993): 116-138.
It has been a while since I read the paper but as I remember the general
theme, in Management's continual quest to apply past learning's to
increase efficiency, the natural outcome is to reduce the organization's
complexity and, in doing so, the capacity to adapt to environmental
change.
--Doug Merchant dougm@eclipse.net
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