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The Foundations of Flux: From Organizational Change to Organizational Becoming
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The Transformation Observatory Podcast by The Transformation Observatory

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Welcome to The Transformation Observatory Podcast. In this episode, we conduct a deep-dive review into a collection of seminal scholarly works that have served as the bedrock of organizational theory for decades. While these canonic articles were often written in principle unrelated to one another, they collectively form the theoretical foundations of how we perceive organizational transformation today.

This podcast explores a fundamental shift in the management paradigm: moving away from viewing transformation as a finite, episodic effort and toward seeing it as a continuous continuum. Drawing on the core concepts found in your sources, we discuss:

  • Organizational Becoming: We examine the radical perspective of Tsoukas and Chia, who argue that  ... 
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Keywords
Haridimos TsoukasRobert ChiaOrganizational BecomingRobert H. SchafferMatthew K. McCreightChange ArchitectureKarl E. WeickRobert E. QuinnEpisodic ChangeContinuous Change