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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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Pathways of Change: Organizations in Transition
Ljiljana Erakovic,Michael Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss and illustrate organizational changes as initiated by ownership transition, and develop and elaborate three different pathways that organizations might follow through the process of transformation from government departments to state-owned enterprises, and then to privately-owned companies: the incremental, radical and reductive pathways.
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The Sensemaking-Coevolution-Implementation Theory of software design
TL;DR: In this paper, a process theory of software development practice, called Sensemaking-Coevolution-Implementation Theory (SCI), is proposed to explain how complex software systems are created by cohesive software development teams in organizations.
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Corporate entrepreneurship in a dispersed setting: actors, behaviors, and process
Olga Belousova,Benoît Gailly +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrative framework for the corporate entrepreneurship process that would account for dynamic contributions of multiple actors through their activities and behaviors is proposed. But the authors focus on how employees from different managerial ranks of an organization contribute to the Corporate entrepreneurship process and how these contributions change as the project unfolds over time.
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A contingency approach to resource‐creation processes
Cliff Bowman,Nardine Collier +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on strategy process literature is presented, explaining the theoretical positions and assumptions that underpin different types of process, and a series of resource-creation pathways that illustrate the different routes firm inputs might take on the way to becoming unique and valuable resources is developed.
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