Lewin, ArieY. and Volberda, HenkW. (2003). Preface: Beyond Adaptation vs. Selection Research: Organizing Self-Renewal in Co-evolving Environments Journal of Management Studies, 40(8):2109--2110.
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The central concern of this JMS special research symposium is the dynamics of organization adaptation and mutation in times of bewildering rapid rates of environmental change and accompanying accelerating selection rates. The adaptation–selection literature is very extensive and spans diverse theoretical perspectives. However, it is inconclusive on the role of managerial intentionality in organizational adaptation. The voluminous literature has more to say about selection and sources and causes of structural inertia than about self-renewing organizations that might counteract such inertia. Moreover, the dominant discourse on adaptation– selection still takes place within single theme theoretical silos.