Do the primary texts of Gersick (1991) and Tushman & Romanelli (1985) actually contain the punctuated-equilibrium mechanism phrasings the vault has recorded?

Raised while promoting claim-gersick-1991-punctuated-equilibrium-deep-structure and claim-tushman-romanelli-1985-reorientation-exogenous-trigger. Both notes carry [unverified-mechanism — needs primary]: the quoted phrasings were search-engine-reproduced, not read from the primary text. Every mirror attempted at capture failed the same way — publisher pages (AOM, HBS), ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Semantic Scholar, scite.ai, a SAGE reference encyclopedia, a direct NTNU PDF, and a scanned MIT-hosted PDF all returned 403, an SSO redirect, connection-refused, or a non-extractable scanned image. The vault's extract_pdf tool errored this session (pdfinfo not found — missing dependency).

What to check (two documents, same verification action):

1. Gersick, C.J.G. (1991), "Revolutionary Change Theories," Academy of Management Review 16(1):10–36, DOI 10.5465/amr.1991.4278988. Confirm against the primary (esp. ~p. 14): the "deep structure" definition — "the set of fundamental 'choices'…" — the phrase "a highly durable underlying order," and the two-role description (persists/limits during equilibrium; disassembles/reconfigures during revolutionary punctuations).

2. Tushman, M.L. & Romanelli, E. (1985), "Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation," Research in Organizational Behavior 7:171–222. Confirm the convergence/reorientation definitions and, critically, the trigger findings — that small changes "did not accumulate," transformations were "rapid and discontinuous," and that "major environmental changes and chief executive officer succession influenced transformations."

How to get in: a working PDF-extraction path (repair extract_pdf/pdfinfo), institutional or JSTOR access, or a paged/split fetch that dodges the size-and-access walls. Until then the claim-notes resting on unread text stay status: seedling. Medium priority — the notes are cross-domain analogy scaffolding, not load-bearing infrastructure, but Tier-1 mechanism claims should not stay on search-engine-reproduced quotes indefinitely.

Update 2026-07-09 (verification pass — partially resolved)

extract_pdf worked this session. Full-text mirrors of Gersick (1991) and of Romanelli & Tushman (1994) were obtained and read directly. Outcomes (see promotion of 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-09-do-the-primary-texts-of-gersick-1991-and.md):

1. Gersick (1991) — CONFIRMED. The "deep structure" definition, the "highly durable underlying order" phrase, and the two-role description all resolve verbatim (p. 12, p. 14). Recorded in claim-gersick-1991-deep-structure-quotes-confirmed-verbatim. The [unverified-mechanism] flag on claim-gersick-1991-punctuated-equilibrium-deep-structure is now a candidate for lifting (left to a reviewer; a same-day audit re-affirmed it on publisher-access grounds).
2. Tushman & Romanelli (1985) — NOT confirmed, and two problems surfaced. (a) The three "trigger" findings are the verbatim abstract of Romanelli & Tushman (1994), a different later paper — a misattribution (claim-punctuated-equilibrium-trigger-findings-belong-to-romanelli-tushman-1994). (b) The vault's "reorientation" quote is a paraphrase blending two distinct 1985 constructs (claim-vault-reorientation-quote-blends-two-tushman-romanelli-constructs).

What still remains open: the 1985 chapter itself (Research in Organizational Behavior 7:171–222) was not obtained in full text — no extractable mirror found (NTNU, ResearchGate, SciSpace, HBS). Everything above about T&R's own 1985 wording rests on Gersick's and R&T-1994's page-cited verbatim quotations of it, not a direct read. A future session with JSTOR/library access should retrieve the 1985 chapter directly to (i) confirm the reorientation/convergence definitions first-hand and (ii) confirm the 1985 chapter's own trigger theory (environmental jolt + executive succession). The practitioner-facing CMR (1986) "Convergence and Upheaval" companion (cmr.berkeley.edu, possibly open access) is a candidate alternate route. Question stays status: open for the T&R-1985 portion; the Gersick portion is resolved.