Organization theory poorly explains how discredited institutions survive hostile change

Evidence

Transformation is said to occur either at the margins (North 1990) or in dramatic “critical junctures” (Collier and Collier 1991), while population ecology models argued that the environment will simply reward certain forms of organization and winnow out others (Aldrich 1979, Scott 1992). There are few examinations of how established organizations survive and adapt successfully to environmental changes that often undermine the very grounds for their existence. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s comparative frame: like communist parties post-1989, organizations that lose their constitutive threat/enemy face an under-theorized survival question. — connects to: Organization theory poorly explains established organizations successfully adapting to existential change — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 91; Outdated organizational partitions persist through tradition despite losing relevance — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992; Fundamental social change erupts when progress is blocked by anachronistic institutions — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 251

Broader Connections

• Organization theory poorly explains established organizations successfully adapting to existential change #corroborates (1.00) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 91
• Outdated organizational partitions persist through tradition despite losing relevance #corroborates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992
• Fundamental social change erupts when progress is blocked by anachronistic institutions #complicates (0.70) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 251