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Organization theorists have considered ‘technology’ and ‘environment’ to be separate conceptual units affecting and affected by organizational behavior. This paper examines the impact on organizational change of degrees of uncertainty about some ‘Technological Environment’. These constraining boundary conditions are used as a basis for modeling organizational opening/ closing phenomena and to develop organization design guidelines.
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Bish, J.T., Rheinfrank, J. (1978). The Technological Environment and Organization Boundary Conditions: A Theoretical Discussion of Opening and Closing Phenomena with Design Implications. In: Rose, J. (eds) Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_138
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