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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.
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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.

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Content characteristics of formal information technology strategy as implementation predictors in Norwegian organisations

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Positioning theory and practice question(s) within the field of management learning

TL;DR: The authors argue that management learning, as a field of study, has different choices to make than mainstream management research in its conceptualisation and treatment of theory/practice, and argue that Management Learning, when it looks at its existing practice through the epistemic practice perspective, will appreciate the contribution it is already making to advancing theory and practice understanding in management without needing to develop additional collaborative research strategies.
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Towards a Theory on Corporate Reputation and Survival of Young Firms

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Opportunity and innovation: Synergy within an entrepreneurial approach to marketing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there is potential synergy between opportunity and innovation in the creation of value and competitive advantage for businesses, and that while entrepreneuria is beneficial, it is not always sustainable.
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of the first half of the 20th century, from 1875 to 1914, of the First World War and the Second World War.
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The Social Construction of Reality

TL;DR: Scheleris et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a sociologijos disciplinos raida, which is a discipline for sociologists to discipline themselves in the discipline of social sciences.