T. Cummings, Susan A. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and G. Ledford, Jr. present a framework for understanding
a research approach with organizations that are designing and redesigning themselves to adapt to rapid and fundamental societal changes.
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Creating Useful Research With Organizations: Relationships and Process Issues
Susan A. Mohrman, Thomas Cummings, and Edward E. Lawler III explain that concern about the usefulness of organizational research exists in both the academic and practitioner communities.
Managing Organizational Decline: The Case for Transorganizational Systems
This paper by Thomas G. Cummings, Larry E. Greiner, and Judith F. Blumenthal discusses transorganizational systems as an innovative yet increasingly frequent response to organizational decline.
Implementing Quality Work Life Programs
Susan A. Mohrman and Thomas Cummings state that quality of worklife programs attempt fundamental value and behavioral changes in organizational. This requires the establishment of structures and processes to facilitate learning. Such structures and processes are discussed.