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Examines the organizational and human issues of some 500 high- performing entrepreneurial firms, explores CEO's evaluations of their firm's effectiveness, and identifies organizational strengths and weaknesses. Identifies employee acceptance of change, risk taking, and leadership building as important organizational behaviors which support growth. Appendices include survey questionnaires and data tables. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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This book, the result of the author's PhD dissertation, emphasizes the importance of organizational development to the success of entrepreneurial firms. Carlock defines all terms, thoroughly reviewing the organizational development literature starting from the Middle Ages. All management and behavior science authors past and present are mentioned along with a brief explanation of their contributions. An extensive bibliography is provided at the end of each chapter, and many figures and tables illustrate the theoretical points. In the second half of the book, Carlock attempts to correlate organizational effectiveness with the success of 704 high performing entrepreneurial firms. Much statistical analysis is done to prove this point, which is shown in many tables. In the final chapter a case study demonstrates how an entrepreneurial firm improved and achieved high performance through the implementation of organizational development concepts. The book is helpful for its broad coverage of the history of organizational development theory and for emphasizing its importance to entrepreneurial success. However, the author is not totally convincing, as he does not discuss the importance of strategic planning (or some other management concepts), which helps all firms (including entrepreuneurial ones) succeed. Graduate, faculty. D. W. Huffmire; University of Connecticut