A ‘Rhizomic’ Model of Organizational Change and Transformation: Perspective from a Metaphysics of Change
论文批评传统组织变革模型依赖静态语言,提出基于变化形而上学的“根茎”模型,以更好理解组织转型的内在动态复杂性和不确定性。
We are not good at thinking movement . Our instinctive skills favour the fixed and the static, the separate and the self‐contained. Taxonomies, hierarchies, systems and structures represent the instinctive vocabulary of institutionalized thought in its determined subordinating of flux, movement, change and transformation. Our dominant models of change in general and organizational change in particular are, therefore, paradoxically couched in the language of stasis and equilibrium. This paper seeks to offer an alternative model of change which, it is claimed, affords a better understanding of the inherent dynamic complexities and intrinsic indeterminacy of organization transformational processes.