Self-Determination Theory as an explanation for the evolution of enterprises

Glenn E. Maples, Zhiwei Zhu, Ronald B. Heady and Anne Keaty

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2009, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: An extensive literature analyses work organisations from an evolutionary perspective. However, it is limited in addressing issues of causality, i.e. why should an organisational change occur and what is the mechanism of the change? These questions of causality are distinct from those like what enterprise forms exist, what the organisation's precursors were and what facilitating/enabling factors were present during an organisation's change. The current research suggests a more fully developed set of answers to the questions of causality using the well developed psychological 'self-determination theory' to connect the goal-related behaviour of individuals to enterprise growth and decline.

Keywords: enterprises; enterprise development; organisational evolution; SDT; self-determination theory; goal-related behaviour; individual behaviour. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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