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Serendipity as a Mechanism of Change and its Potential for Explaining Change Processes

Weisenfeld, Ursula - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 138-148

Serendipity plays an important role in science and technology development. This article investigates serendipity as a potential mechanism of change in management areas such as technology management, strategy and organization. The mechanism will be described and conditions that support or hinder...

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Mechanisms of Teleological Change

Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Sigrid - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 126-137

Teleology is used as fundamental principle in describing and explaining actions. The basic concept of teleology is the assumption of an actor engaging in intentional, goal-oriented behavior. This article describes how teleological mechanisms work and show changes can be effectuated. A short case...

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Leading and Managing Organizational Change Initiatives

Peus, Claudia; Frey, Dieter; Gerkhardt, Marit; Fischer, … - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 158-175

Although indispensable for long-term economic growth, organizational changes are usually met with resistance. This article draws on psychological theories and empirical evidence to highlight why and under what conditions changes lead to resistance and what likely consequences of resistance are....

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Mechanisms of Dialectical Change

Martin, Albert - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 149-157

Dialectics as a scientific method has its limitations. Dialectics as an intrinsic aspect of reality is an eminent and essential force in social life. Dialectics is about structures and dialectics is about change. This article shows how dialectic mechanisms work. The general considerations are...

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Mechanisms of Change

Martin, Albert; Weisenfeld, Ursula; Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, … - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 117-125

To understand organizational, strategic and technological change it would be helpful to resort to mechanisms that are responsible for triggering and directing deep-seated social change processes. Propositions about mechanisms have an interesting epistemological status, they take an intermediate...

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Change Management of Socially Relevant Habits

Behrens, Gerold; Neumaier, Maria - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 176-189

It is sometimes necessary for the state to take intrusive measures into the life of its citizens in order to attain higher social goals. When circumstances require it, the force of law may be used (e.g. smoking prohibition, obligation to wear seat belts whilst driving), but on the whole it is...

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Organizational Discontinuity: Integrating Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change Theories

Deeg, Juergen - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 2, pp. 190-208

Facing an age of tremendous change and transformation, the ability to cope with such radically, i.e. discontinuous changing contexts is not only a major challenge in present organizational practices, but also a “true test” for organization science. Thus, the paper pursues a critical study of...

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Drivers and strategies of international new ventures from a Central European transition economy

Nowinski, Witold; Rialp, Alex - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 2, pp. 191-231

This paper contributes to SME internationalization theory by offering region-specific propositions on early … internationalization of Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms. We suggest that special treatment of international new ventures from CEE … early internationalization involve domestic market entry barriers and arbitrage opportunities related to the higher …

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International New Venture Legitimation : An Exploratory Study

Turcan, Romeo V. - 2014

There is limited theoretical understanding and empirical evidence for how international new ventures legitimate. Drawing from legitimation theory, this study fills in this gap by exploring how international new ventures legitimate and strive for survival in the face of critical events during the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044236

Factors of effective strategy implementation: Empirical evidence from Slovenian business practice

Cater, Tomac; Pucko, Danijel - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 15 (2010) 3, pp. 207-236

The paper’s purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly rely on planning and organising activities when...

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