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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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Organizational motivation and inter-organizational interaction in construction innovation in Singapore
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the individual firm's motivation to adopt innovation in a construction project, and the interorganizational interactions of relevant parties involved in innovation, based on the theory of organizational motivation and inter-organizational relationships.
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Beneath and Beyond Organizational Change Management: Exploring Alternatives
Andrew Sturdy,Christopher Grey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce contributions to a special issue exploring alternative accounts of organizational change management (OCM) and identify why such alternatives are needed by pointing to core assumptions within OCM, including a practical and ontological prochange bias, managerialism and universalism.
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The Physical Environment of the Office: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
TL;DR: Work spaces have been typically described as either traditional (sometimes referred to as enclosed or cellular offices) or open-plan, with individual workstations arranged within the office in groups (Brennan, Chugh, & Kline, 2002; Brookes & Kaplan, 1972) as discussed by the authors.
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Social capital in the growth of science-and-technology-based SMEs
TL;DR: In this article, the role of social capital and its structural, relational and cognitive dimensions in the growth of science and technology-based SMEs is explored, and a conceptual framework is developed to describe their development through four overlapping phases, each of which involves different managerial tasks.
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Narratives of Change: Discourse, Technology and Organization
TL;DR: This article developed an understanding of organizational change predicated on the idea of organization as a performance or an effect, rather than a stable social structure, using the concept of "narrative of ordering" to make sense of the processes that constitute organizations and the various mechanisms of ordering and organizing employed by organizational actors.
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