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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.
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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.

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Deconstructing and reconstructing the capability hierarchy

TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical framework of ordinary capabilities, dynamic functional capabilities, and dynamic learning capabilities is developed, which differ across four interdependent internal dimensions of predominant resources, routine patterning, learning, and strategic intent.
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The Sensemaking-Coevolution-Implementation Theory of Software Design

TL;DR: This theory development paper defines and illustrates Sensemaking-Coevolution-Implementation Theory, grounds its concepts and relationships in existing literature, conceptually evaluates the theory and situates it in the broader context of information systems development.
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Step by step: Capturing the dynamics of work team process through relational event sequences

TL;DR: University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois are the main sources of funding for this research.
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Towards a theory of software development expertise

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual theory of software development expertise that is grounded in data from a mixed-methods survey with 335 software developers and in literature on expertise and expert performance.
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Framework for transforming departmental culture to support educational innovation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a research-based framework for promoting institutional change in higher education, which encourages change agents to coordinate their activities across three key levels of the university and to ground their activities in the various change perspectives that emerge from that literature.
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