A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF ORGANIZATIONS
基于Miller和Friesen的组织构型与量子结构变革以及Hannan和Freeman的组织种群生态学工作，构建了一个数学模型，展示组织如何适应环境变化，并检验了通用主义与专精主义、量子变革与渐进变革等策略的含义。
Abstract The recent work on organizational configuration and quantum structural change by Miller and Friesen (1984), and on the population ecology of organizations by Hannan and Freeman (1978, 1983) suggests some integral relationships between eiivironments, structure and optimal adaptive strategies. These appear to warrant a more systematic and formal analysis. Towards that end a mathematical model is developed to show the way organizations adapt t o changing environments. Using a Markovian representation, three types of environments are examined t o test the implications that the model has for adopting strategies of generalism vs. specialism, concerted ‘quantum’ 71,s. piecemeal change, and batching changes together vs. changing gradually and promptly.