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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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The dynamics and evolution of trust in business relationships
Yimin Huang,Ian Wilkinson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a process model of the dynamics and evolution of trust in business relations based on a view of business relations as complex adaptive systems and identify the psychological, social and economic mechanisms driving these changes in trust.
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Innovation labs in the public sector: what they are and what they do?
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive attempt to globally map and analyse innovation labs (i-labs) in the public sector is made, which is based on a two-step approach: first, a comprehensive survey was carried out followed by an extensive in-depth interview with the managing figures of i-lab; eleven i-lab responded, finding support for the assumptions of external complexity, technological challenges, emulation, and legitimacy.
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Software Startups - A Research Agenda
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TL;DR: Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models.
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Introduction to Special Topic Forum: Where are the New Theories of Organization?
TL;DR: The authors summarize the manifest and latent content of the articles that make up the Special Topic Forum on Theory Development and conclude by speculating about the institutional barriers to new theory creation and how those barriers might be changed.
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Organizational Becoming as Dialogic Imagination of Practice: The Case of the Indomitable Gauls
TL;DR: This paper explores the relationship between authoring of identities and organizational development through a case study of the 18-year history of a professional service firm, identifying three forms of imagination of practice as central in the development of the case organization.
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