Organizational Change and Temporality

Organizational Change and Temporality
Author: Patrick Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317626028

Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time looks to address the important area of time and temporality, especially as it relates to frameworks and studies for explaining change processes in organizations. It commences with a selective history on the science and philosophy of time before examining the place of time in work and employment, and the presence and absence of theorized time in explanations of organizational change. The intention is to bring to the fore concepts and debates that have largely remained hidden, furthering our knowledge and understanding of time and temporality in changing organizations. The authors provide a more informed theoretical explanation of the temporal dimensions of organizational change. They examine the concepts and debates behind change theories, philosophical positions and scientific concerns on time and material existence, drawing connections that have previously remained unexplored. This book is key reading for researchers within the organizational change world and will further the academic debate of time and temporality in organizations studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Author: Marshall Scott Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0192584804

Organizational change and innovation are central and enduring issues in management theory and practice. Dramatic changes in population demographics, technology, competitive survival, and social, economic, and environmental health and sustainability concerns means the need to understand how organizations repond to these shifts through change and innovation has never been greater. Why and what organizations change is generally well known; how organizations change is therefore the central focus of this Handbook. It focuses on processes of change — or the sequence of events in which organizational characteristics and activities change and develop over time — and the factors that influence these processes, with the organization as the central unit of analysis. Across the diverse and wide-ranging contributions, three central questions evolve: what is the nature of change and process?; what are the key concepts and models for understanding organization change and innovation?; and how should we study change and innovation? This Handbook presents critical evolving scholarship from leading experts across a range of disciplines, and explores its implications for future research and practice.

Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies
Author: Juliane Reinecke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019887071X

Time, temporality, and history are inherently important constructs in process organization studies, yet have struggled to move beyond limited conceptualizations in management theory. This volume draws together emerging strands of interest to adopt a more nuanced approach in understanding the temporal aspects of organizational processes.

Time Issues in Strategy and Organization

Time Issues in Strategy and Organization
Author: T. K. Das
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1641138610

The field of strategy science has grown in both the diversity of issues it addresses and the increasingly interdisciplinary approaches it adopts in understanding the nature and significance of problems that are continuously emerging in the world of human endeavor. These newer kinds of challenges and opportunities arise in all forms of organizations, encompassing private and public enterprises, and with strategies that experiment with breaking the traditional molds and contours. The field of strategy science is also, perhaps inevitably, being impacted by the proliferation of hybrid organizations such as strategic alliances, the upsurge of approaches that go beyond the customary emphasis on competitiveness and profit making, and the intermixing of time-honored categories of activities such as business, industry, commerce, trade, government, the professions, and so on. The blurring of the boundaries between various areas and types of human activities points to a need for academic research to address the consequential developments in strategic issues. Hence, research and thinking about the nature of issues to be tackled by strategy science should also cultivate requisite variety in issues recognized for research inquiry, including the conceptual foundations of strategy and strategy making, and the examination of the critical roles of strategy makers, strategic thinking, time and temporalities, business and other goal choices, diversity in organizing modes for strategy implementation, and the complexities of managing strategy, to name a few. This book series on Research in Strategy Science aims to provide an outlet for ideas and issues that publications in the field do not provide, either expressly or adequately, especially as regards the comprehensive coverage deserved by certain emerging areas of interest. The topics of the volumes in the series will keep in view this objective to expand the research areas and theoretical approaches routinely found in strategy science, the better to permit expanded and expansive treatments of promising issues that may not sufficiently align with the usual research coverage of publications in the field. Time Issues in Strategy and Organization contains contributions by leading scholars on time issues in the field of strategy science research. The 8 chapters in this volume cover the topics of future orientation in strategy making, time conceptualizations in interorganizational relationships, real-time management in the digital economy, spatio-temporal aspect of strategic leadership, a systemic-cognitive perspective on organizational temporality, ecosystem types and the timing of open innovation strategies, and the temporalities of strategic risk behavior and partner opportunism in strategic alliances. The chapters collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the temporal issues in strategy and organization.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Author: Marshall Scott Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198845979

Presents cutting-edge theories and research from leading scholars on how to understand and manage organization change initiatives. Advances our understanding of change and innovation by establishing connections among theories from different fields and research traditions and by introducing new lines of inquiry. Organized around major models of organizational change to examine specific process theories and explore important extensions to these theories that have emerged over the past 25 years

Strategic Change

Strategic Change
Author: Colin A. Carnall
Publisher: Digital Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Business planning
ISBN: 9780750619325

Managing major or strategic change now demands the ability to visualise the future, to see what might happen, and to estimate how the organization might respond. Through a selection of key articles on strategic change from authors such as Senge, Handy, Argyris and Prahalad and Doz, Carnall examines how we can understand the process of change and how we can use this knowledge to create the future. These articles look at: *networked organizations *market induced changes for internal and external markets *culture change *learning organization *globalisation This book also includes new material on how to create programmes of change to maximise learning as well as topical approaches such as process re-engineering, time-based management and corporate bench-marking. Students on MBA and other post-graduate business courses, and practitioners in the field of strategic change will find this book essential reading. Colin Carnall is Professor of Management Studies and Director of Programmes at Henley Management College. Top-flight editor from one of the best British Business Schools Includes articles from leading authors -Senge, Handy, Argyris and Prahalad and Doz to name a few Includes new material on how to create programmes of change to maximise learning

Research in Organizational Change and Development

Research in Organizational Change and Development
Author: William A. Pasmore
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780520220

In this diverse volume new methodologies are introduced, such as the strategic fitness process for engaging leaders in better understanding the reactions of employees to strategic change efforts (Beer); Jazz as a metaphor for organizational improvisation (Bernstein & Barrett); and new theories for understanding change processes (Gomez & Ballard).

Organization and Time

Organization and Time
Author: Tor Hernes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192894382

Tor Hernes combines foundational ideas from philosophy, sociology, and organization theory into an integrative theoretical framework of organizational time. He explores the four dimensions of experience, events, resource, and practice, and how these evolve through mutual interplay and are underpinned by 'narrative trajectory'

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Author: Marshall Scott Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199727562

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.