2005
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605056907
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Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change

Abstract: Scholars hold different views about whether organizations consist of things or processes and about variance or process methods for conducting research. By combining these two dimensions, we develop a typology of four approaches for studying organizational change. Although the four approaches may be viewed as opposing or competing views, we see them as being complementary. Each approach focuses on different questions and provides a different — but partial — understanding of organizational change. We argue that … Show more

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“…We do this in response to the call for more 'process studies' 3 of innovation and organization (Pavitt, 2005;Tsoukas & Chia, 2002;Van de Ven & Poole, 2005;Hernes, 2007;Håkansson & Waluszewski 2007). Heeding these calls involves making the notions of process and interaction the point of departure for studying innovation.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…We do this in response to the call for more 'process studies' 3 of innovation and organization (Pavitt, 2005;Tsoukas & Chia, 2002;Van de Ven & Poole, 2005;Hernes, 2007;Håkansson & Waluszewski 2007). Heeding these calls involves making the notions of process and interaction the point of departure for studying innovation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…É nesse sentido que, em grande medida, a recuperação da prática nos estudos organizacionais tem andado de mãos dadas com a preocupação de se "encarar" as organizações não mais como uma "coisa", objetivada, dada na realidade, e sim como um emaranhado de práticas em constante processo de (re/des)construção (SCHATZKI, 2006;VAN DE VEN;pOOLE, 2005). Sob essa perspectiva, que nos leva em direção ao que Chia (1995) chama de uma ontologia do vir a ser, os fenômenos sociais como indivíduo, ambiente, estrutura e organização deixam de ser tomados como certos, como dados na "ordem natural" das coisas, como entidades fixas e estáveis com uma essência própria.…”
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“…Nersessian (2006, p. 131) discusses the "ontology" of artefacts in a lab as its furniture, with devices, instruments and equipment. Van de Ven and Poole (2005) discuss alternative "ontological views of organizations as things and organizing as processes" (p. 1377), and quote Tsoukas (2005) on two versions of the social world: "one, a world made of things on which processes represent change in things; the other, a world of processes in which things are reifications of processes" (p. 1379). They do refer to a philosophical tradition of process ontologies, including Whitehead's notion of ongoing activities "prehending" what goes on in their environment (p. 1378).…”
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