ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
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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 organizations, intervention theories, and roles for change agents. Episodic change follows the sequence unfreeze-transition-refreeze, whereas continuous change follows the sequence freeze-rebalance-unfreeze. Conceptualizations of inertia are seen to underlie the choice to view change as episodic or continuous.
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Understanding how change can occur within organizational routines enables shedding new light on the debate about whether organizational change is episodic or continuous.
“Understanding how change can occur within organizational routines enables us to shed new light on the debate about whether organizational change is episodic or continuous (Tushman and Romanelli, 1985; Gersick, 1991; Weick and Quinn, 1999).”
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- Authors
- Weick, K. E., & Quinn, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- ORCID
- Quinn, Robert E.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1999-02
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 361-386
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W2102916105
- Cited by
- 2,829
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 95 · 2024: 97 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 118 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 166 · 2019: 120 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 177 · 2016: 124 · 2015: 162 · 2014: 154 · 2013: 160 · 2012: 161
- FWCI
- 4.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Management and Change
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Keywords
- organizational change, continuous change, organizational inertia, change agents, organizational development
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