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| Author: | Ludwig, D. |
| Title: | Adapting to a declining environment: lessons from a religious order |
| Journal: | Organization Science
1993 : FEB, VOL. 4:1, p. 41-56 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL DECLINE RELIGION METHODOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examines the ten U.S. provinces of the largest religious order of Catholic priests and brothers, the Jesuits, and explores the structural/organizational adaptations which these ten provinces employed to accommodate dramatic reductions in membership. The organizational placement of roughly 11,000 individual members of these provinces is traced between the years 1965 and 1979. The purpose of this research is to examine the reactions of an entire population of organizations to a declining environment. |
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