When organizations portray themselves to outside constituencies in ways that signal change, while leaving existing practices and routines untouched, this is called:

a. bureaucratic dysfunction.
b. loose coupling.
c. organizational inertia.
d. bureaucratic inconsistency.


b. loose coupling.

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