PROCESS STUDIES OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT: UNVEILING TEMPORALITY, ACTIVITY, AND FLOW

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Langley, Ann; Smallman, Clive; Tsoukas, Haridimos; Van de Ven, Andrew H.
• 署名单位: Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Western Sydney University; University of Cyprus; University of Warwick; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.4001
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1-13
• 关键词: RETHINKING; emergence

摘要

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.