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A ‘Rhizomic’ Model of Organizational Change and Transformation: Perspective from a Metaphysics of Change[Note 1. An earlier version of this paper was first presented ...]
Author(s) -
Chia Robert
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.00128
Subject(s) - instinct , transformational leadership , indeterminacy (philosophy) , metaphysics , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , transformation (genetics) , vocabulary , sociology , cognitive science , positive economics , psychology , economics , computer science , philosophy , social psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , biochemistry , chemistry , evolutionary biology , gene , biology
We are not good at thinking movement . Our instinctive skills favour the fixed and the static, the separate and the self‐contained. Taxonomies, hierarchies, systems and structures represent the instinctive vocabulary of institutionalized thought in its determined subordinating of flux, movement, change and transformation. Our dominant models of change in general and organizational change in particular are, therefore, paradoxically couched in the language of stasis and equilibrium. This paper seeks to offer an alternative model of change which, it is claimed, affords a better understanding of the inherent dynamic complexities and intrinsic indeterminacy of organization transformational processes.