Environmental Turbulence

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Abstract
It is a generally accepted proposition in the literature on organizations that there is a monotonic relationship among increasing environmental complexity, organizational interdependence, and increasing environmental turbulence. Moreover, this proposition also assumes that increasing environmental complexity for the organization and increasing organizational interdependencies lead to increased uncertainty for organizational growth and survival. This article challenges this latter assumption by arguing that organizational theory generally has ignored the industrial organization economics literature. This literature contradicts the increasing uncertainty assumption considered by many to be a major contribution to the literature by Emery and Trist.

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