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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 Virtual Enterprise: using Internet based technology to create a new educational paradigm for the tourism and hospitality industry.
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Design and implementation of virtual organizations
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