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100			_aThompson, James R.
245			_aThe reinvention laborataories: strategic change by indirection
260			_c2000
300			_ap.46-68
362			_aMar
520			_aThe reinvention laboratories created as part of the National Performance Review represent a novel approach to strategic change in the federal government. In assigning an important role to middle management in the design and implementation of new work technologies, the lab program contrasts with more conventional approaches to change in which top management is dominant. This study examines the viability of the generative model that the lab program represents as a means of inducing agencies to employ postbureaucratic organizing principles. A conclusion is that although a variety of factors will affect the degree of success achieved, the model holds promise as a means of achieving strategic change in public organizations. - Reproduced
650			_aOrganizational change
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a44542
999			_c44542 _d44542