Organizational Change: A Conceptual Framework to Advance the Evidence Base
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There is a vast literature on organizational change, but much of it has a weak evidence base, often using only case studies or axioms based on authors' experiences. Quantitative studies are less common and typically address a limited number of variables. Implementation science research is more advanced but typically addresses only program-level change. This paper presents a comprehensive framework of relevant variables and perspectives from which to view organizational change and offers a research agenda, with particular attention to preconditions for change (e.g., change capacity) and organizational change tactics, and their relationships with change outcomes—promising areas for research.
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All community or organisational characteristics jointly influence implementation climate, system readiness for change and capacity for change and thus the chances of an intervention being implemented successfully.
“All of these community or organisational characteristics jointly influence implementation climate [14, 15], system readiness for change [14, 17, 67] and capacity for change [15, 62, 68, 69] and thus the chances of an intervention being implemented successfully.”
From Making sense of complexity in context and implementation: the Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) framework (2017) · cites this paper as [62]
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- Authors
- Packard, T.
- Affiliations
- San Diego State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Packard, Thomas
- ORCID
- Packard, Thomas
- Venue
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 75-90
- ISSN
- 1091-1359 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-3556
- OpenAlex
- W2051357611
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 111
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Management and Change
- Keywords
- organizational change, conceptual framework, evidence base, implementation science, change capacity, change outcomes, research agenda
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