AVOIDING ECOLOGICAL SURPRISE - LESSONS FROM LONG-STANDING COMMUNITIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: KING, A
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/258962
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 961-985
• 关键词: systems; resource; forest; RISK

摘要

Increasingly ecologists have recognized the importance of sudden and unexpected changes in the natural environment-often called ''surprises.'' Organizational scholars have not developed a theory of how to avoid ecological surprise. This article suggests one way to develop such a theory. Using ecology, systems analysis. and a historical comparison of four communities, the article concludes that organizing and managing natural resources in part as community property can play a central role in avoiding surprises.