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Do organizations really co-evolve? : Problematizing co-evolutionary change in management and organization studies
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- Abatecola, G. (author)
- University of Rome Tor Vergata, School of Economics, Department of Management and Law, Rome, Italy
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- Breslin, D. (author)
- Sheffield University Management School, Conduit Road, Sheffield, UK
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- Kask, Johan, 1980- (author)
- Örebro universitet,Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet,INTERORG Marketing Research Center
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- Elsevier, 2020
- 2020
- English.
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In: Technological forecasting & social change. - : Elsevier. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 155
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- This conceptual article discusses and, from some aspects, also problematizes the state-of-the-art regarding co-evolutionary research in Management and Organization Studies (MOS). Analyzing 76 characteristic studies published since 2000, we address three simple, significant questions: What co-evolves? What causal relationships are considered? What are the theoretical processes? The motivation behind our contribution is twofold: on the one hand, the turn of the century witnessed the remarkable growth of inquiries which, at face value, have claimed to be “co-evolutionary”; but, on the other hand, specific analyses about where this fast-growing meta-theoretical perspective on social change is now, and where it could move towards in the future, are still missing in MOS. Our study reveals increasing heterogeneity in defining what co-evolves and the associated causal relationships. It also reveals the prevailing scarcity in explaining what processes substantially characterize co-evolution in MOS. With a view to shaping the future direction of research in this area, we propose four core principles that theoretically set the co-evolutionary project apart.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Adaptation
- Change
- Co-evolution
- Conceptual
- Management
- Organization
- Societies and institutions
- Technological forecasting
- Causal relationships
- Co-evolutionary
- Organization studies
- State of the art
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- art (subject category)
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