Bücher der Reihe Classics in Organization & Management Series

This work is a multidisciplinary study of the behaviour of complex organizations as entities. It considers individual behaviour only to the extent that it helps explain the nature of organizations. The test offers propositions about the behaviour of organizations.

The environment of modern organizations is so complex and volatile that we take for granted that organizational change is necessary for organizational survival. Yet the literature on organizations has for years described manifold obstacles to such change. First published in 1971, this book extracts from that literature and from experience a comprehensive yet concise overview of those barriers. Because these elements of the analysis are as valid now as when they were originally written, The Limits of Organizational Change is still widely read and cited nearly a quarter-century later.