“The effective organization of industrial resources… alters in important respects in conformity with changes in extrinsic factors.”

—  Tom Burns

Source: The Management of Innovation, 1961, p. 96, as cited in: Richard Whittington (2014), Corporate Strategies in Recession and Recovery, p. 40

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British sociologist 1913–2001

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