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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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Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge:
Anna Soulsby,Ed Clark +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that organizational research in European post-socialist contexts over the last 17 years has made a significant and enduring contribution to organization theory and provide the rationale for the special issue, which focuses on the formative relationship between the body of organizational knowledge forged largely within stable western market-economies and the findings of organizational research conducted within institutionally unstable and ambiguous postsocialist environments.
Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe, and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos
TL;DR: This chapter takes a step in the direction of a formal model-centered organization science by framing complexity theory application to firms in terms of computational models, and reduces Scott's framework to four driving forces: adaptive tension, self-organization, interdependency effects, and multilevel coevolution.
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A Process Perspective on Industrial Symbiosis: Theory, Methodology, and Application
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide the underpinnings for such a methodology, presents a developed methodology, event sequence analysis, and shows its added value through a set of research questions and an empirical example.
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How Leadership Characteristics Affect Organizational Decline and Downsizing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a sequence-based model was used to assess the impact of leaders' risk-aversion and self-centeredness on organizational decline and downsizing and the impact on organizational and industry decline on organizational downsizing.
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Action Learning, Fragmentation, and the Interaction of Single-, Double-, and Triple-Loop Change: A Case of Gay and Lesbian Workplace Advocacy
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