A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change

Edited by Tor Hernes and Miriam Feuls, Centre for Organization and Time, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Research has overlooked the need for modern organisations to enact continuity during periods of change. This Research Agenda addresses this by considering continuity and change as engaging in various forms of mutual interplay. The underlying theme of this book is that change needs continuity just as continuity needs change.

本卷提供了一个削减edge treatment of both sides of organizational temporality: continuity and change. It does so not by a reductionist analysis emphasizing one or the other side, but by considering the many types of relationships between the two. The book’s twelve chapters explore how continuity and change relate to one another in a yin-yang like relationship and posit several different “takes” on this relationship. Scholars of organizational change and development will find bright new perspectives and insightful critiques in this volume, and I highly recommend it to both beginning and experienced scholars of this subject.’
– Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US

‘A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change is a timely and exciting addition to long-standing inquiries into organizational continuity and change. Grounded in an integrative conceptualization, the multiple chapters provide innovative alternatives to more conventional treatments of these processes as sequential, parallel, or opposed. Offering insightful considerations of the relationality, temporality, and performativity of continuity and change, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to engage with the lively, fluid, and entangled realities of contemporary organizing.’
– Wanda J. Orlikowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US