In this paper the role of technology in the life of organizations is examined in the context of five case studies. The studies show how the balance between the technology-oriented and people-oriented aspects of technology development and implementation is changing. Widespread use of technology in real-life working environments has brought to light new challenges and opportunities for learning a...

In this paper, we argue that numerous dynamic entities make up organizations and that their complexity can be described systematically. We identify three types of organizational complexity: environmental, component and hierarchical. We define the elements of the contingencies of cultural selection as they apply to organizations and propose that organizational change can be understood in terms o...

The primary objective of this study was to model the interaction between organizational culture and change, delineating the ways in which a leader’s knowledge of organizational culture affects the process of implementing change, and identifying the stages of the change process at which the interaction between organizational culture and change implementation holds functional significance. Many e...

Data from a survey on digital strategies in the Danish public sector reveals sparse IT-strategy diffusion and limited use of advanced first-mover technologies. The survey contrasts the picture of the public sector as a digital dynamo and challenges the rational views on IT-strategy formulation. Facing incrementally orchestrated strategies, the paper suggests that more attention is given to the ...

• Set against the baseline perspective that health care organizations are complex adaptive systems whose future states are unpredictable and unknowable, the purpose of this chapter is to introduce a perspective of health care organizations that borrows from quantum theory and chaos theory to describe innovation and change not as rational, controllable processes, but instead as complex, uncertai...

Focusing on the special case of changes triggered by profound economic reforms in emerging economies, we suggest a new perspective from which to explore the relationship between environmental and organizational change. This research setting is used to explore and propose enhancements to existing theory that take into account how organizations respond to extreme forms of change. We propose a typ...