Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
介绍了生命周期、目的论、辩证法和进化四种基本理论，它们可作为解释组织变革过程的构建模块，并探讨了这些理论如何相互作用产生更复杂的变革理论。
This article introduces four basic theories that may serve as building blocks for explaining processes of change in organizations: life cycle, teleology, dialectics, and evolution. These four theories represent different sequences of change events that are driven by different conceptual motors and operate at different organizational levels. This article identifies the circumstances when each theory applies and proposes how interplay among the theories produces a wide variety of more complex theories of change and development in organizational life.