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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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A Simulation-Based Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation Implementation
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Investigating Information Systems with Positivist Case Research
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Speed in the Internationalization Process of the Firm
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reflect on the past two decades of research on organizational identity, looking to its history and to its future. But they do not provide a review of the literature, nor do...
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Conceptualizing Cluster Evolution: Beyond the Life Cycle Model?
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TL;DR: This paper explores a different conception of cluster evolution, drawing on the ‘adaptive cycle’ model that has been developed in evolutionary ecology, and offers greater scope as a framework for shaping the research agenda into the evolution of clusters.
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