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Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
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In this article, the authors introduce four basic theories that may serve as building blocks for explaining processes of change in organizations: life cycle, teleology, dialectics, and evolution, which represent different sequences of change events that are driven by different conceptual motors and operate at different organizational levels.Abstract:
This article introduces four basic theories that may serve as building blocks for explaining processes of change in organizations: life cycle, teleology, dialectics, and evolution. These four theories represent different sequences of change events that are driven by different conceptual motors and operate at different organizational levels. This article identifies the circumstances when each theory applies and proposes how interplay among the theories produces a wide variety of more complex theories of change and development in organizational life.read more
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Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History
Mark de Rond,Anne Huff +1 more
TL;DR: De Rond as discussed by the authors argues that such theories must allow for social conduct to be active and self-directed but simultaneously inert and constrained, thus permitting voluntarism, determinism, and serendipity alike to explain causation in alliance life.
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Studying Organizational Creativity as Process: Fluidity or Duality?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare and contrast two theoretical perspectives, which are based on different process ontologies, and discuss their methodological implications, and argue that the practice perspective offers particular promise, because it allows us to address the important yet paradoxical question of how creativity may be organized and managed.
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Exploring and Explaining Patterns of Adaptation and Selection in Corporate Environmental Strategy in the USA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the evolving pattern of environmental strategy within a large sample of US companies over the period 1997 to 2006 and characterize the pattern of evolving responses to natural environmental issues, distinguish between changes in the overall attention paid to environmental issues that are attributable to the forces of adaptation and selection, and examine the distinctive characteristics of those organizations that have exhibited the most dramatic improvements in their environmental strategy.
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A universe of stories: Mobilizing narrative practices during transformative change
Elena Dalpiaz,Giada Di Stefano +1 more
TL;DR: This work analyzed how one noted strategy maker assisted the successful transformation of his organization over three decades by orchestrating the production of change narratives, revealing that the strategy maker constructed and reconstructed meanings of change over time using three sets of distinct but interconnected narrative practices.
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Knowledge management for maritime logistics value: discussing conceptual issues
Eon-Seong Lee,Dong-Wook Song +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework is established for the exploration of the way to acquire knowledge and the effectiveness of the acquired knowledge in maximising the maritime logistics value, and its relevant theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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