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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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Organization-based performance measures of cancer care quality: core measure development for breast cancer in Taiwan.
TL;DR: The CPMs for breast cancer can be developed systematically and be applied for internal quality improvement and external surveillance and can be extended to other cancer sites and adapted to link with pay for performance or certification program in cancer care.
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Establishing an intrapreneurial orientation as strategy: A framework for implementation
H. Jacobs,S. Kruger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a study aimed at increasing an organization's ability to implement a strategy for establishing an intrapreneurial orientation effectively by integrating theory and practice from the fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship.
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Measuring industry clockspeed in the systemic industry context
Ozgur Dedehayir,Saku J. Mäkinen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derive a temporal measure of technological industry clockspeed, which evaluates the time between successively higher levels of performance in the industry's product technology, over time and derive a systemic technological industry clockpeed for systemic industry contexts, which measures the time required for a particular sub-industry to utilise the level of technological performance that is provisioned by another, interdependent sub-Industry.
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Change management practices in small island economies: A study of private sector organisations in Mauitius
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study of three private sector organisations from different sectors in Mauritius: the banking sector, the hotel industry and a privatised state-owned enterprise was conducted in a modified grounded theory study to establish the key dimensions of organisational change.
Workplace Development Programmes as Institutional Entrepreneurs - Why They Produce Change and Why They Do Not
TL;DR: Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Tuomo Alasoini Name of the doctoral dissertation Workplace Development Programmes as Institutional Entrepreneurs: Why They Produce Change and Why They Do Not as discussed by the authors.
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