Organization theory is, as the title of this special issue suggests, at a crossroads. At a time
when the world of and around organizations is changing very fast, and when the need to …

One area in which strategy and organizational ecology converge is organizational change.
This essay weaves together salient themes in my (and my co-authors') various writings on …

Organizational ecology has focused largely on theoretical and conceptual debates, with
relatively little attention devoted to integrating emerging research. In this paper, empirical …

Human societies are structured by what we refer to as 'institutions', which are socially
created and culturally inherited proscriptions on behaviour that define roles and set …

Recent world events have brought the need to better understand how to work and live in a
heterogeneous world into relief. The origins of group dynamics and development theory are …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical conceptual tool for analysing
the dynamics of cultural change in organizations. In so doing it seeks to address two …

Research on how organizational systems develop and change is shaped, at every level of
analysis, by traditional assumptions about how change works. New theories in several fields …

This essay introduces the basic methodology of organizational ecology and sketches some
key insights arising from that work. For example, the paper will consider the extent of …

Traditional approaches to organizational change have been dominated by assumptions
privileging stability, routine, and order. As a result, organizational change has been reified …