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“More complicated, but still a placid environment, is that which can be characterized in terms of clustering: goals and noxiants are not randomly distributed but band together in certain ways. This may be called the placid, clustered environment.”

Fred Emery

Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 28-29.

“The simplest type of environmental texture is that in which goals and noxiants ("goods" and "bads") are relatively unchanging in themselves and randomly distributed. This may be called the placid, randomized environment.”

Fred Emery

Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 28.

“Yet more complex are the environments we have called turbulent fields. In these, dynamic processes, which create significant variances for the component organizations, arise from the field itself.”

Fred Emery

Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 30.

“The next level of causal texturing we have called the disturbed reactive environment. It may be compared with Ashby's ultra-stable system or the economists' oligopolic market.”

Fred Emery

Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 29.

“Yet more complex are the environments we have called turbulent fields.”

Fred Emery

In these, dynamic processes, which create significant variances for the component organizations, arise from the field itself.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 30.

“The next level of causal texturing we have called the disturbed reactive environment.”

Fred Emery

It may be compared with Ashby's ultra-stable system or the economists' oligopolic market.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 29.