Organizational Change and Development
Contributors
Bozana, Chiyuan Li, Janine Jaquet, Koen, Sybe, Tobias Lensker
Author: Karl E. Weick and Robert E. Quinn
Title:Organizational Change and Development
Year of Publication: 1999
Journal:Annual Review of Psychology
Volume: 50 Issue:1
Source: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.361
Keywords: business, change, entrepreneurship, gestalt switch, management, new combination, organization, revolt, remember, theory oriented
Abstract:Recent analyses of organizational change suggest a growing concern with the tempo of change, understood as the characteristic rate, rhythm, or pattern of work or activity. Episodic change is contrasted with continuous change on the basis of implied metaphors of organizing, analytic frameworks, ideal or-ganizations, intervention theories, and roles for change agents. Episodic change follows the sequence unfreeze-transition-refreeze, whereas continu-ous change follows the sequence freeze-rebalance-unfreeze. Conceptualizations of inertia are seen to underlie the choice to view change as episodic or continuous
Contributors
Bozana, Chiyuan Li, Janine Jaquet, Koen, Sybe, Tobias Lensker