The nature of organizational change
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Tushman, Newman and Romanelli (1988): Periods of convergent fine-tuning and incremental adjustments build up to frame breaking changes.
Periods of convergent fine-tuning and incremental adjustments build up to frame breaking changes. < fine-tuning <-> incremental adjustments <-> frame breaking change >
Planned and emergent change
Planned change (incremental change): from one stable state to another, discontinuous, topdown, clear goals, rational.
Emergent change (continuous change): bottom up, no clear goal in terms of a new design but guided by a shared notion of the change direction based on strategy and mission
Emergent change (continuous change): bottom up, no clear goal in terms of a new design but guided by a shared notion of the change direction based on strategy and mission
Predictable change
In some respects, change could be viewed as neither wholly emergent nor planned. The organizational life cycle (Greiner, 1972) has been used to describe the stages organizations go through as they grow and develop.
- Evolutionary stages
- Growth through creativity
- Growth through direction
- Growth through delegation
- Growth through coordination
- Growth through collaboration
- Revolutionary stages
- Crisis of leadership
- Crisis of autonomy
- Crisis of control
- Crisis of red tape
- Crisis of ?
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