organizational change is where it's at.

Critical management studies (CMS) is a loose but extensive grouping of politically left wing and theoretically informed critiques of management, business and organisation, grounded originally in a critical theory perspective. Today it encompasses a wide range of perspectives that are critical of traditional theories of management and the business schools that generate these theories.

Organizational ecology (also organizational demography and the population ecology of organizations) is a theoretical and empirical approach in the social sciences that is especially used in organizational studies. Organizational ecology utilizes insights from biology, economics, and sociology, and employs statistical analysis to try and understand the conditions under which organizations emerge, grow, and die.

It’s a hard call made harder by power struggles. CEOs can force a more thoughtful debate by asking three critical questions.

Geoffrey West: "Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster " @edge video-feature

study of studies on SNA, review of topics in journal articles, trends in post-Fordist organizational design

Every organization is made up of tribes, groups of 20 to 150 people who are bound together by familiarity and shared work. Tribes are the little-acknowledged, basic building block of any large human effort.

3 types of trust: interpersonal, organizational and instutional, and social

Geert Hofstede's research gives us insights into other cultures so that we can be more effective when interacting with people in other countries. If understood and applied properly, this information should reduce your level of frustration, anxiety, and concern. But most important, Geert Hofstede will give you the 'edge of understanding' which translates to more successful results.

Hofstede's study demonstrated that there are national and regional cultural groupings that affect the behaviour of societies and organizations, and that are very persistent across time.