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Volume 13, Issue 1
1 February 2000
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Conceptual Paper| February 01 2000

How long do things last?

Gib Akin
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7816
Print ISSN: 0953-4814
© MCB UP Limited
2000
Journal of Organizational Change Management (2000) 13 (1): 30–31.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810010310221

Just what is the “self”, the core identity of an organization whose longevity we might want to study? What is it that persists, that has the longevity we are trying to explain? This essay is a reflection on the answers to these questions.

Keywords: Organizations, Perceptions, Organizational change
© MCB UP Limited
2000
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