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THE TIMES OF CAUSE AND FLOW IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Research in Organizational Change and Development

ISBN: 978-0-76231-167-5, eISBN: 978-1-84950-319-8

Publication date: 8 April 2005

Abstract

New ways of managing change have run aground on the uncritical acceptance of a limited view of temporality, identified here as causal-time. Because it emphasizes identity and state-transitions, causal-time is inherently static and past-centered. An alternative view, called flow-time, emphasizes the dynamic of the always arriving future. The claim is made that a future-centered temporality gives access to the knowledge change agents need to cope with accelerating and ongoing change.

Citation

Purser, R.E., Bluedorn, A.C. and Petranker, J. (2005), "THE TIMES OF CAUSE AND FLOW IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE", Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0897-3016(04)15001-5

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