Academy of Management Journal· 2013Q1
Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management: Unveiling Temporality, Activity, and Flow
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Process studies reveal how organizational change emerges, develops, and terminates over time by focusing on temporality, tensions, and cross-level interactions.
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Key points
- Process studies focus on the emergence, development, and termination of phenomena over time.
- They emphasize the importance of temporality, tensions, and contradictions in driving change.
- Cross-level interactions are shown to be crucial contributors to organizational change.
- These studies also reveal the dynamic processes that maintain organizational stability.
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Abstract
Process studies focus attention on how and why things emerge, develop, grow, or terminate over time. We identify various ontological assumptions underlying process research, explore its methods and challenges, and draw out some of its substantive contributions revealed in this Special Research Forum on Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management. Process studies take time seriously, illuminate the role of tensions and contradictions in driving patterns of change, and show how interactions across levels contribute to change. They may also reveal the dynamic activity underlying the maintenance and reproduction of stability.
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Field: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting