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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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Development as Leadership-led Change
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The Voice Cultivation Process: How Team Members Can Help Upward Voice Live on to Implementation:
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In Deep Waters: process theory between Scylla and Charybdis:
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Determining how internal and external process connectivity affect supply chain agility: a life-cycle theory perspective
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