ABSTRACT

From many salient perspectives-perhaps from the most salient perspective-the contributions of OD are perhaps best reckoned in the effects involving large-system change. Let us accept this proposition for the sake of the present argument, although that proposition is too simple by half. In any case, to honor the proposition, four chapters-12 through 15-are devoted to different aspects of large-system change, starting with the present emphasis on strategic change in business.