TY - JOUR

T1 - Mechanisms of change

AU - Martin, Albert

AU - Weisenfeld, Ursula

AU - Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Sigrid

PY - 2009/1/1

Y1 - 2009/1/1

N2 - 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 stance between law-like and descriptive statements. On the one hand they designate concrete events and on the other they draw on the causality responsible for the emergence of these events. In this article we describe some fundamental characteristics of mechanisms, describe some important change mechanisms and articulate some desiderata for mechanisms-research.

AB - 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 stance between law-like and descriptive statements. On the one hand they designate concrete events and on the other they draw on the causality responsible for the emergence of these events. In this article we describe some fundamental characteristics of mechanisms, describe some important change mechanisms and articulate some desiderata for mechanisms-research.

KW - Management studies

KW - change processes

KW - mechanisms

KW - logic of explanation

KW - management of change

KW - change processes

KW - mechanisms

KW - logic of explanation

KW - management of change

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/91435546-5433-3efd-ae26-1e0168b0f8d2/

U2 - 10.5771/0935-9915-2009-2-117

DO - 10.5771/0935-9915-2009-2-117

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 20

SP - 117

EP - 125

JO - Management Revue

JF - Management Revue

SN - 0935-9915

IS - 2

ER -