The management of change becomes a managerial prerogative with specific skills. Built on the theme that empowering managers to plan for change ignores the impact of wider and more determinate forces that lie outside the organization. An organization as an interdependent piece of a much larger whole. No one best way. Variance within an organization can be explained by factors outside.
Comparative studies are much easier.
Niche width is determined by the combination of general resources and factors specific to a sector such as business cycles, rates of innovation, union policies, the economy, and government policies, regulations and fiscal trends. They can transform or reproduce themselves with relative ease. Specialist organizations have a narrow niche, and perform best in environments that are stable or change slowly and predictably. They have specific resource requirements and serve tightly defined markets. They can build flexibility into their structures.