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The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations

Shona L. Brown, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1997 - 
- Vol. 42, Iss: 1, pp 1-34
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This article is published in Administrative Science Quarterly.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 4242 citations till now.

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Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges

TL;DR: The research strategy of theory building from cases, particularly multiple cases, involves using one or more cases to create theoretical constructs, propositions, and/or midrange theory from case-based, empirical evidence.
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Dynamic capabilities, what are they?

TL;DR: Seeks to present a better understanding of dynamic capabilities and the resource-based view of the firm to help managers build using these dynamic capabilities.
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Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities

TL;DR: The argument is made that dynamic capabilities are shaped by the coevolution of these learning mechanisms, and the relative effectiveness of these capability-building mechanisms is analyzed here as contingent upon selected features of the task to be learned, such as its frequency, homogeneity, and degree of causal ambiguity.
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Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an extension to the structurational perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices, enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that technology.
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Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited

TL;DR: In this article, a contingency view of process management's influence on both technological innovation and organizational adaptation is developed, arguing that while process management activities are beneficial for organizations in stable contexts, they are fundamentally inconsistent with all but incremental innovation and change.
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Case Study Research: Design and Methods

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Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research

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Adaptation in natural and artificial systems

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Qualitative Data Analysis

TL;DR: In the field of qualitative data analysis, qualitative data is extremely varied in nature. It includes virtually any information that can be captured that is not numerical in nature as mentioned in this paper, which is a generalization of direct observation.
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