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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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Putting the system back into systems change: a framework for understanding and changing organizational and community systems
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Paradox as a Metatheoretical Perspective Sharpening the Focus and Widening the Scope
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A Terminal Assessment of Stages Theory: Introducing a Dynamic States Approach to Entrepreneurship:
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Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change
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The Management of Change in Public Organisations: A Literature Review
Ben Kuipers,Malcolm Higgs,Walter J.M. Kickert,Lars Tummers,Jolien Grandia,Joris van der Voet +5 more
TL;DR: A review of the recent literature on change management in public organizations is presented in this paper, where the authors explore the extent to which this literature has responded to earlier critiques regarding the lack of (public) contextual factors.
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