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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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Intervention research as management research in practice: Learning from a case in the fashion design industry
Giovanni Radaelli,Marco Guerci,Stefano Cirella,Abraham B. (Rami) Shani,Abraham B. (Rami) Shani +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the intervention research approach, originally developed by the research group at Ecole des Mines de Paris, as a design science approach able to address both the relevance gap issue and the growing complexity of management practice.
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Internet of things capability and alliance: Entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and product and process innovation
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A Sensemaking Model of Employee Evaluation of Psychological Contract Fulfillment: When and How Do Employees Respond to Change?
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Manufacturing the Past: Loss and Absence in Organizational Change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe different conceptions of the past presented in a retrospective analysis of organizational change, including regret for what has been in the past, return to the past and loss of what might have been, and loss as relief to move on to what can be in the future.
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