Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an “organizational becoming” perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the micro-context of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural and ongoing; it occurs in every-day interactions as actors eng...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Vegt for feedback and encouragement on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank participants in the " New Perspectives on Organization Science " conference which was held at Carnegie‐Mellon University in May, 2009. 2 ABSTRACT This paper reviews the scholarly literature on th...

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Requests for reprints should be addressed to Jaap Boonstra, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237, 1012 DL Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Email: [email protected] Jaap J. Boonstra is associate professor in the Organizational Studies Division of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. Kilian M. Ben...

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