Understanding Organizational Transformation Using a Dissipative Structure Model
提出用耗散结构模型解释组织转型，认为非均衡条件能催生新秩序，提升管理复杂性的能力，适合研究组织变革的学者参考。
Organizational transformation, qualitative and fundamental changes in an organization, occurs as a result of an organization's adaptive mechanisms being overwhelmed by internally or externally induced contingencies. Current approaches to change derived from equilibrium models are not adequate to describe the transformation phenomena. An emerging paradigm, dissipative structure, provides an alternative perspective on transformation by proposing that non-equilibrium conditions provide the opportunity for a new organizational order, resulting in an increased ability to manage complexity. Conditions, processes, and functioning of organizations from this perspective are discussed.