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Complementing Prior research by Staw et al. ("Threat-rigidity effects in or
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model of organizational change, "autogenic crisis". The authors' update of
Staw et al.'s threat-rigidity model shows that top managers may initiate s
trategic "pre-adaptations" to future crises, thereby rising latent threat t
o generate organizational flexibility, learning, renewal and, possibly, lon
ger life.