{"title":"Becoming an Agent of Change","authors":"Christine Porath, David Tyack","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198845973.013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198845973.013.11","url":null,"abstract":"Social movements are often regarded as the seedbeds of widescale organizational change in western economies. However, we know less about why and how actors take on the insurgent identities that motivate and enable them to play dramatic roles in the movements that facilitate such change. One argument is that actors become agents of change through some kind of common conversion experience. But such an explanation struggles to address the character and nature of the motive forces that embolden and stabilize oppositional insurgent identities that then reshape incumbent interests, systems and structures. Drawing on aspects of narrative and psychoanalytic traditions, which have both made compelling contributions to the European study of organizational change, our chapter suggests a pattern of unconscious drives, traumatic experiences and socialized narratives that aid the formation of insurgent organizational change agents.","PeriodicalId":292766,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131334457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Becoming of Change in 3D: Dialectics, Darwin, and Dewey","authors":"Moshe Farjoun","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.38","url":null,"abstract":"Dialectical development through a conflict process of affirmation, negation, and synthesis, provides a template, both for modelling organizational change, and for constructing new, synthetic conceptual models of change. This chapter highlights two other important means by which dialectics can stimulate new change models: as a relational process philosophy, and as an evolutionary theory. A selective review of the history of ideas about change, from Greek philosophy to Hegelian and Marxian dialectics, to Darwin, to pragmatism, underscores how relational process principles link several, not commonly connected, “becoming” literatures, and how these principles can stimulate key conceptual innovations. The contrast of dialectics with Darwin’s evolutionary theory uncovers several, non-obvious affinities: in underlying principles, change patterns, and mechanisms. The capacity of dialectics—as a philosophy and as an evolutionary theory—to inspire new ideas, is illustrated by a reading of Dewey’s work anew, and through other examples pertinent to contemporary phenomena.","PeriodicalId":292766,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121120920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Life Cycle Process Model","authors":"M. S. Poole, A. Ven","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the core features of life cycle models of organizational change. These models of change are also referred to as regulated, mandated, prescribed, imposed, logically necessary, or prefigured in advance of their execution. Life-cycle models do not imply that an actor must passively comply with mandated changes; actors may be proactive individuals who adapt to their environments and make use of rules to accomplish their purposes. The strengths, challenges, and stages of life cycle models are examined, and future developments advancing life cycle models by considering the role of choice and of multiple forms of agency are advocated.","PeriodicalId":292766,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123548539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion of Innovations","authors":"J. Dearing","doi":"10.4135/9781412959216.n80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412959216.n80","url":null,"abstract":"The main concepts of the diffusion of innovations represent a hybrid change research and practice paradigm that blends ideas that can now be found in life cycle, evolutionary, and teleological theories of social change. This chapter discusses why the paradigm developed in the ways that it did, including the shortcomings of this approach, especially for studying the role of organizations in change processes. The chapter also examines the rapid rise of dissemination and implementation science as conducted by health services and public health researchers and how those new literatures are related to diffusion. This paradigmatic evolution from descriptive and explanatory studies to intervention research utilizing diffusion concepts is a theme of this chapter, with emphases on organizational implementation of innovations, inter-organizational diffusion, external validity of innovations and how a recognition of the agency of adopters can reshape diffusion study.","PeriodicalId":292766,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125038296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional Change","authors":"E. Micelotta, M. Lounsbury, R. Greenwood","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.24","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews the current state of research on change processes from an institutional perspective. It examines the longitudinal progression of research, illustrating the generative processes that drive change, the patterns of change over time, the mechanisms underpinning change, and its key outcomes. It distinguishes variance and process studies and zooms in on process-based research (i.e., temporal progression of event sequences), discussing implications for organizations, and similarities and differences between theoretical models of change. We conclude by noting that our typology of change pathways situates extant research to reveal important blind spots in the literature that require more systematic attention.","PeriodicalId":292766,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129799417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}