Kurt Lewin and complexity theories:
back to the future?
BERNARD BURNES-Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK |
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ABSTRACT
Many writers acknowledge the significance of Kurt Lewin's contribution
to organizational change. However, over the last 20 years, where the
focus has been on rapid, transformational change, Lewin's work has
increasingly become seen as outmoded and irrelevant to the needs of
modem organizations. It might be expected that this tendency would
increase as academics and practitioners draw on the work of complexity
theorists to portray organizations as complex, dynamic, non-linear
self-organizing systems. Though there are some who do take this view, |
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