Co-blogger Jacques Delacroix writes the following (in 1995!):

Organizational ecology is the other major open system school of thought. Organizational ecology (sometimes called “population ecology”) is built around the concept of structural inertia. In the ecological view, organizations in general have little latitude for effective structural change. Indeed, accoriding to some ecologists, important structural forms are often recipes for disaster and more likely lead to organizational demise than to organizational adaptation, as assumed by managerial schools of thought […] Continue reading →