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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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Varieties of Dialectic Change Processes
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Value Dynamics: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Public Value Changes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a preliminary framework for analyzing how values in the public sector change over time, which is conceptualised as three types of change mechanisms: a teleological, a conflictual and a value-internal change mechanism.
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