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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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Managed formation process of r&d networks
TL;DR: This study increases the understanding of R&D networks by presenting an empirically grounded process model of the formation of such networks and highlights the importance of the network webber both in triggering the formation process and in managing the process.
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A spill over effect of entrepreneurial orientation on technological innovativeness: an outlook of universities and research based spin offs
Veronica Scuotto,Manlio Del Giudice,Manlio Del Giudice,Manlio Del Giudice,Alexeis Garcia-Perez,Beatrice Orlando,Francesco Ciampi +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the link between entrepreneurial orientation and such spill overs by offering an outlook of two universities and two research-based spin offs in the United Kingdom and found that entrepreneurial attitude has become an imperative to succeed in the context where British institutions currently operate.
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The emergence of city logistics: the case of Copenhagen’s Citylogistik-kbh
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative processual analysis of a single longitudinal case of city logistics is presented, where organizational change theory is applied to capture the social processes leading to the emergence of the city logistics.
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The Buzzing, Blooming, Confusing World of Organization and Management Theory A View from Lake Wobegon University
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Reframing the infomated household-workplace
Gayle C. Avery,Ellen Baker +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the household is a vital third element, in addition to the employer and employee, and that reframing can be used by those considering home-based working, to help them understand the likely impacts on their household and to facilitate the transition to home- based working.
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