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| Author: | Milliken, F. J. |
| Title: | Perceiving and interpreting environmental change : an examination of college administrator's interpretation of changing demographics. |
| Journal: | Academy of Management Journal
1990 : MAR, VOL. 33:1, p. 42-63 |
| Index terms: | EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS DEMOGRAPHY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | College and university administrators' interpretation of an objectively verifiable environmental change, the decline in the number of 18-22-year-olds in the United States, is examined and the effects of resource dependence factors and organizational characteristics on the degree to which administrators experienced different types of environmental uncertainty are explored. The results suggest that an organization's resource dependencies may be a significant determinant of how environmental changes are interpreted but they do not have a significant effect on administrators' certainty about the state of their environment or about how to respond to a changing environment. |
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