TY - JOUR AB - In a recent issue of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Blake strongly criticised an article on organisational change by Blumberg and Wiener for the authors' failure thoroughly to review the literature and for missing important material relevant to their study. In response, Blumberg simply stated that they were not aware of the material, because it had appeared in a relatively obscure journal. Indeed, a later writer (Zurcher) criticised one of Blake's papers on the same grounds, and then suggested that an event such as this might easily happen to any of us. Despite their apparent conflict, each of these individuals did agree, of course, that a thorough review of the literature on any given topic is necessary to good research and reporting. Our purpose here is not to pour salt on wounds, but rather to illustrate our raison d'ĂȘtre for presenting the material below. VL - 14 IS - 0 SN - 0025-1747 DO - 10.1108/eb001091 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001091 AU - Pate Larry E. AU - Rowland Kendrith M. PY - 1976 Y1 - 1976/01/01 TI - Current OD Theory and Practice: Some References and Comments T2 - Management Decision PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 1 EP - 18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -