Projecting Backward and Forward on Processes of Organizational Change and Innovation

This essay discusses how views of organizational change and innovation have traditionally focused on planned episodic change that focuses on rational, strategic, top-down and consensus-directed interventions following teleological or regulatory process models. Future scholarship seems to be focusing...

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Published inThe Journal of applied behavioral science Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 436 - 446
Main Author Van de Ven, Andrew H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2021
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Innovations
Organizational change
Social movements
organizational change
innovation
innovation management
change management
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Summary:This essay discusses how views of organizational change and innovation have traditionally focused on planned episodic change that focuses on rational, strategic, top-down and consensus-directed interventions following teleological or regulatory process models. Future scholarship seems to be focusing more on unplanned continuous organizational changes that emphasize experiential, emergent, bottom-up, pluralistic social movements following dialectical and evolutionary models of change. While planned-episodic and unplanned-continuous change may appear to be opposing views of organizational change, they are entangled in one-another, and provide a rich agenda of future scholarship on processes of organizational change and innovation.
ISSN:0021-8863
1552-6879
DOI:10.1177/00218863211042895