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Review of Managerial Science
Published in: Review of Managerial Science 2/2015

01-03-2015 | Editorial

Management of qualitative change in small and medium-sized enterprises: a kaleidoscope of theoretical and empirical research

Authors: Matthias Fink, Hermann Frank, Katherine Gundolf, Norbert Kailer

Published in: Review of Managerial Science | Issue 2/2015

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Change has always fascinated scholars across disciplines and numerous theories and models of organizational change and development have been published (Weick 1979; Van de Ven and Poole 1995). In management science, change has long been conceptualized as the opposite of stability (Adler et al. 2009; March 1991; Nelson and Winter 1982; March and Simon 1958). Only recently management theory conceptually overcame this dualism and established an understanding of duality of change and stability. In this thinking it is the interplay of change and stability that fosters critical developments in firms such as innovation, internationalization and strategic renewal (Moshe 2010). …
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Metadata
Title
Management of qualitative change in small and medium-sized enterprises: a kaleidoscope of theoretical and empirical research
Authors
Matthias Fink
Hermann Frank
Katherine Gundolf
Norbert Kailer
Publication date
01-03-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Review of Managerial Science / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1863-6683
Electronic ISSN: 1863-6691
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-014-0153-5

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