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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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Achieving consumer focus in supply chains
Keivan Zokaei,Peter Hines +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the fast moving consumer goods sector is provided which shows how the proposed "Supply Chain Kano-QFD" technique can be deployed to engage the capabilities and enthusiasm of the firms along the chain to enhance the value of the final consumable.
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Turnarounds: A Stage Theory Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a composite four-stage model is proposed to describe the dynamics of turnaround and provides a basis for the development of a theory on which to draw further, by categorizing the elements of turnaround as three critical requirements: incidents, events, and concepts.
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Chinese GAAP and IFRS: An analysis of the convergence process
TL;DR: This article examined the process of convergence of Chinese GAAP with IFRS from the perspective of process theory and concluded that a combination of staged implementation and direct import has proven to be practical and effective in the convergence.
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Conceptualizing coopetition as a process: An outline of change in cooperative and competitive interactions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework which explains change in co-competitive interactions and particularly in inter-organizational rules for interaction, which are formulated based on past experiences from mutual interaction.
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Network process analysis: An event-based approach to study business network dynamics
TL;DR: An event based analysis strategy developed to study processes in business networks is introduced, enabling the researcher to trace and understand processes beyond mere structural change, and to capture their evolution in a multilayered network context.
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