Mechanisms of Change

Albert Martin (), Ursula Weisenfeld () and Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn ()
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Albert Martin: Institute for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Campus, 21391 Lueneburg, Germany
Ursula Weisenfeld: Institute of Corporate Development, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Campus, 21391 Lueneburg, Germany
Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn: Institute of Corporate Development, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Campus, 21391 Lueneburg, Germany

management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2009, vol. 20, issue 2, 117-125

Abstract: To understand organizational, strategic and technological change it would be helpful to resort to mechanisms that are responsible for triggering and directing deep-seated social change processes. Propositions about mechanisms have an interesting epistemological status, they take an intermediate stance between law-like and descriptive statements. On the one hand they designate concrete events and on the other they draw on the causality responsible for the emergence of these events. In this article we describe some fundamental characteristics of mechanisms, describe some important change mechanisms and articulate some desiderata for mechanisms-research.

Keywords: change processes; mechanisms; logic of explanation; management of change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L20 L21 L26 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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