ABSTRACT
Not very long ago, the literature on OD success rates in non-North American settings also was enmeshed in the throes of negative speculation, but more deeply so. For one thing, OD values poorly fit much of the non-Western world, we were told; and OD was tailored to later stages of economic development characteristic only of patches of the world. And as for success rates, even if some successes existed in North American settings, the results overall, no doubt, would be pitiful and pitiable, even for those rare applications that could be found. Some observers allowed that things might change, and substantially so. But agreement was solid that now was not the time to declare victory over all that ails the theory and experience of OD in cross-national and especially cross-cultural applications. Perhaps most observers never even contemplated such a day. Ironically, no one looked very hard to test the common opinion. So, let’s try to do the obvious thing here.
