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refreezing

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by Kurt Lewin to describe the state of an organization following some radical changes, when its members have fully incorporated the required new ways of doing ...

life space

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by Kurt Lewin to describe the totality of the physical and psychological factors in the environment of an individual or group at any given time.

future shock

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by the American writer Alvin Toffler in the 1970s to denote the growing difficulty many people have in our society of coping with, and adapting to, what he ...

shamrock organization

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by the Irish management theorist Charles Handy as a description of the flexible firm. The three leaves of his shamrock are the professional core, the flexible ...

mechanistic organization

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by two British sociologists and management theorists, Tom Burns and George Stalker. It denotes a relatively closed and formal type of organization with a high ...

organic organization

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced by two British sociologists and management theorists, Tom Burns and George Stalker. It denotes a relatively open and informal type of organization displaying ...

stability zones

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced in 1970 by the American futurologist Alvin Toffler to describe those relationships, times and places in busy lives, which are otherwise full of stress, that ...