Explaining development and change in organizations

Article 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. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Organizational change

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A collective action model of institutional innovation

Article Abstract:

A collective action model of institutional innovation is proposed based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements' literature. The model views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors adopting conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions and it represents an important complement to existing models of institutional change.

United States, Management-Creativity, Technological innovations, Business creativity

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