Claims / C-P7VQSGHYG4

Conjecture

Organisations do not adapt gradually, they adapt late and all at once. Part I's claim, which the author emphasised in the text: as the economic environment shifted in response to new technologies and knowledge, business organisation and strategy stayed relatively constant until the mismatch between strategy and environment passed a critical threshold. Managers' mental models, preference for the status quo and love of routine hold the old form in place, so change arrives as a break rather than a drift. That lag is where the returns are.

Capital mechanisms

Evidence 1 passage

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    business organization and strategy tended to remain relatively constant until the mismatch between the strategy and the new business environment passed a critical threshold.** This created opportunities for those that could look past their previous experience and understand that industrialization had ushered in a fundamentally different e

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