---
title: "Connie J. G. Gersick"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Connie J. G. Gersick"
aliases: ["Connie Gersick"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["punctuated equilibrium (organizations)","deep structure (organizations)","Michael L. Tushman","group development","Eldredge and Gould's peripatric speciation"]
seek_code_commit: "290e6f6"
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American organizational psychologist known for extending the biological punctuated-equilibrium model into organizational and group-development theory, most influentially through her 1991 *Academy of Management Review* synthesis "Revolutionary Change Theories: A Multilevel Exploration of the Punctuated Equilibrium Paradigm," which compares change models across six domains and names the construct of "deep structure." In this vault she is the single most load-bearing citation route into the [[entity-michael-tushman|Tushman]]/[[entity-elaine-romanelli|Romanelli]] organizational-reorientation literature: several of that cluster's claims — including its "3x" executive-succession figure and two source corrections — enter the vault only through her page-cited quotations of their work, making her own citation practice the hinge the whole thread depends on.

## References
- [[claim-gersick-1991-punctuated-equilibrium-deep-structure]] — her multilevel synthesis and the "deep structure" construct.
- [[claim-gersick-1991-deep-structure-quotes-confirmed-verbatim]] — a direct read confirming her deep-structure quotations verbatim.
- [[claim-vault-reorientation-quote-blends-two-tushman-romanelli-constructs]] — her page-cited quotations of Tushman & Romanelli (1985) are the route that exposed a vault paraphrase error.
- [[claim-gersick-1991-attributes-3x-figure-to-tushman-newman-romanelli-1986]] — confirms her page-cited attribution of the "3x" frame-breaking-change figure to Tushman, Newman & Romanelli (1986: 42).
- [[claim-tushman-newman-romanelli-1986-3x-figure-unverified-against-primary]] — the residual gap: her citation is Tier-1 confirmation of the *attribution*, not of the 1986 primary's own text.