"Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many “objective” features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints."
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Karl E. Weick, Social Psychology of Organizing, (1979). p. 243
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