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[1] A continuous view of time accommodates both continuous and discontinuous notions of change.

[2] Burns and Stalker (1961) originally used the terms mechanistic and organic to distinguish between different organization structures and management styles required to cope with different environments. We borrow the terms to suggest that different contexts call for different clusters of conceptual, explanatory, prescriptive, and methodological models. We too view the terms as describing points on a continuum rather than a dichotomy of pure types. We find the term organic particularly suitable to our purposes since it combines notions of process, unity, and vitality.