Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
T Academy of Management Review 1995, Vol. 20, No. 3, 510-540. Explaining Development AND Change IN Organizations ANDREW H. VAN DE VEN University of Minnesota MARSHALL SCOTT POOLE Texas A&M University 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 dif- ferent sequences of Change events that are driven by different con- ceptual 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. Explaining how and why Organizations Change has been a central and enduring quest of scholars in management and many other disci- plines.
1986), and a number of stage theories of child development (Piaget, 1975), human development (Levinson, 1978), moral development (Kohlberg, 1969), organizational development (Kimberly & Miles, 1980), group deci- sion-making stages (Bales …
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