 Writes Chaudhuri, 'For a model cannot without destroying itself take account of the passage of time which affects its structural boundaries and parameters'.Theories of institutional change are of fundamental concern and those that are not amenable to changes over time appear to have little explanatory power.Thus while useful as an organising heuristic, systems analysis seems rather unlikely to yield insights regarding organizational change.”

Clive Dewey noted that the "Trading World of Asia ""represented the work of a lifetime, not only—or even mainly—in the sense that it took a significant proportion of [the author's] working life to write, but in the sense that such a book is only likely to be written once in a lifetime."