Abstract:
This research focuses on the environmental analysis of the textile sector in Pakistan. It
identifies and examines the potential risks of internal, external and international dimensions
of the organizational environment. This research shows that organizational analysis and
management practice in the developing countries has not attended to the complexities and
potential risks that are folded in environmental factors. Consequently, the environmental
risks and complexities associated with organizational change and development remain
unexplored. This thesis identifies these risks and complexities and suggests further that for
any successful implementation of transformational change, the identification and
management of complexities and risks are essential.
To identify and examine the environmental complexities and risks, a study of the
textile sector of Pakistan is taken up as a case. This research develops a theoretical as well
as methodological framework for examining the context of Pakistan, and focuses on the
data collection process in three stages: analysis of the internal environment; analysis of the
external and international environment; and a review of the secondary data on the textile
sector published by various sources. A set of findings and recommendations are put
forward for managing the complexities and risks for a successful implementation of
transformational change in the textile sector of Pakistan.
The research claims various contributions to existing theory and practice. Firstly,
it takes up the context of Pakistan, a developing country, for an analysis of organizational
environment. Secondly, this research recommends a detailed examination of the external
and international environmental risks and complexities for business organization in the
developing countries in general, and the textile sector of Pakistan, in particular. Thirdly, in
a similar domain, it identifies a range of complex variables and risks that adversely affect
the organization’s transformation process in the textile sector of Pakistan.
