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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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Approaching the Conceptual Leap in Qualitative Research
Malvina Klag,Ann Langley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature on the conceptual leap that generates abstract theoretical ideas from empirical data and suggested that conceptual leaping is best portrayed as a form of bricolage, drawing resources from the different poles of four dialectics: deliberation and serendipity, engagement and detachment, knowing and not knowing, and between self-expression and social connection.
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New Venture Evolution and Managerial Capabilities
Warren Boeker,Robert Wiltbank +1 more
TL;DR: Examination of start-up firms founded from 1983 through 1995, examining each firm for seven years after its founding to evaluate the conditions that influence a firm's changes in top management, indicates that top management team changes occur in cases of very low or very high firm growth, but are mitigated by a functionally diverse top managementteam.
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Complexity Arrangements for Sustained Innovation: Lessons from 3M Corporation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify how combinations of practices afford multiple agentic orientations simultaneously for the actors involved and thereby facilitate sustained innovation in 3M's innovation process, which they conceptualize as complexity arrangements.
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Learning for change: an educational contribution to sustainability science
Matthias Barth,Gerd Michelsen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the emergence of education for sustainable development as a distinctive field of educational science and introduce and discuss three areas of sustainability research and throw into relief the unique contribution that educational science can make to individual action and behavior change, to organizational change and social learning, and, finally, to inter-and transdisciplinary collaboration.
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Antecedents, Moderators, and Performance Consequences of Membership Change in New Venture Teams
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether environmental and internal team factors influence the stability of emerging venture teams, as well as whether team stability has an impact on firm performance, and found that turnover rates are the result of both external environmental and team composition factors.
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