"Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems."

"Organizational forms — specific configurations of goals, boundaries, and activities — are the elements selected by en…"

"A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique com…"

"Active loose coupling occurs when a subsystem of an organization is more tightly coupled to an environmental sector t…"

"In general, growth is an intrinsic source of change with potentially unintended effects and some subunits are better …"

"Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essentia…"

"When one appeals solely to the truth of a discourse to authorize it intellectually and socially, one represses reflec…"

"On the other hand, ... a pragmatic turn ... expands the number of parties who may participate more or less as equals …"

"Where a discourse is redeemed ultimately by metatheoretical appeals, experts step forward as the authorities. This si…"

"The future of popular-based social and economic changes does not he in parliamentary elections, given their elitist s…"