Change
A person who may influence others’ decisions in a direction desired by a change agency.
What is a CHANGE AGENT?
An idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
What is INNOVATION?
The means an organization uses to transform inputs into products or services.
What is TECHNOLOGY?
This concept describes an organization’s capacity for self-production through a closed system of relations.
What is AUTOPOIESIS?
This situation occurs when the rate of change in a social system is commensurate with the system’s ability to cope with it.
What is DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM?
At the organizational level, it refers to the technology that secures an uninterrupted flow of resources that sustains the organization.
What is a CORE TECHNOLOGY?
These are systems that move away from influence from a dominant attractor pattern toward a new organizational configuration.
What is a BIFURCATION POINT (or fork in the road)?
This is a type of innovation-decision where the choices to adopt or reject are made only after a prior innovation-decision has been made.
What is CONTINGENT INNOVATION-DECISION?
This requires coordinating the specialized abilities of two or more experts in the transformation of usually unique input into a customized output.
What are INTENSIVE TECHNOLOGIES?
These four frames are typically used in making strategic decisions about making organizational change.
What are Structural, Human Resource, Political, and Symbolic?
These are two of the four categories of people in the diffusion of the innovation process.
What are INNOVATORS, EARLY ADOPTERS, EARLY MAJORITY, LATE MAJORITY, OR LAGGARDS?
Promoted by a Dutch professor, it describes how technologies are shaped by complex socio-cultural trade-offs.
What is SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY (SCOT)?
In Dialectical Analysis, these are Marx’s three principles of his Theory of Social Change.
What are the Unity of opposites (or mutual struggle), negation of the negation, and transformation of quantity into quality?
These are three of the five steps in the Innovation-Decision process.
These are three of the five steps in the Innovation-Decision process.
This American sociologist expanded a typology to include both manufacturing and service sector technologies and it rested on distinguishing three kinds of technologies.
Who is James Thompson and what are long-linked, mediating, and intensive technologies?