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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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From the 'Treaty of Detroit' to the 401(k): The Development and Evolution of Privatized Retirement in the United States.
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Loyalty in business-to-business service context: literature review and a proposed framework
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Rethinking organizational change
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Towards the integration of system modelling with scenario planning to support strategy: the case of the UK energy industry
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