Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management
该专刊聚焦于研究事物如何随时间涌现、发展或终止的过程问题，而非变量间的共变关系，旨在推动组织与管理过程理论的发展。
This special research forum is devoted to research aimed at understanding process questions about how and why things emerge, develop, grow, or terminate over time – as distinct from variance questions focusing on co-variations among dependent and independent variables. Process questions address issues that span or interconnect the domains of AOM Divisions. They include studies that examine how and why phenomena pertaining to individuals, groups, organizations, and larger industry networks or communities develop and change over time. For example, papers might examine the sequences of events or steps that unfold over time in the development of individuals' decisions, jobs and careers, organizational innovation, transformation, and relationships, or larger social, technical, and economic developments. We seek papers that focus on the temporal order and sequence in which selected managerial or organizational phenomena develop and change over time, and that advance our understanding of process theories of organization and management (as discussed by Van de Ven & Poole, 1995).