Dealing with the dynamic duo of innovation and inertia: The "in-" theory of organization change From: Organization Development Journal | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Millette, Wayne R; Wong-MingJi, Diana J | Copyright O D Institute Spring 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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OD professionals grapple with the confrontations between innovation and inertia, The interactions between these two phenomena create organizational tensions with implications for organization change. The "in-" theory proposes that organization change is a function of resolving organizational tensions arising from the interactions between innovation and inertia. Organization change is conceptualized as the activities and dynamics among units of an organization, and the organiz...

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