Administrative Reorganization and Configurational Context: The Contingent Effects of Age, Size, and Change in Size
研究了200所大学十年间高层管理者的行政重组，发现组织规模、年龄和规模变化共同影响重组水平，并分析了复杂性与惯性等竞争力量的作用。
The administrative reorganization of top-level managers in 200 colleges and universities was examined over a ten-year period. Findings showed that organizational size, age, and change in size work in configurations to affect administrative reorganization. Arguments focusing on competing forces for structural change and stability provide explanations for differences in levels of reorganization. These forces originate in countervailing pressures from increased complexity associated with large size, the inertia of old age, and stimuli for change during growth and decline.