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Organizations are designed by people, the same as machines are. They are social constructions, just as machines are technical constructions. When our environment is changed through technical inventions — and this has occurred more and more rapidly in the last two centuries — we need social inventions to adapt ourselves. We can interpret the national and international political and economic, crisis as a reflection of our social ingenuity lagging behind our technical inventiveness.
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Boersma, J. et al. (1979). Introduction: from 1878 to 2028. In: Hofstede, G. (eds) Futures for work. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1645-1_1
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