2024 Volume 43 Pages 117-134
This paper attempts to clarify what patterns of organizational change processes can be found based on an evolutionary framework. What is unique to this evolutionary framework is that it asserts that two types of entities, the replicator as a genealogical entity and the interactor as an ecological entity, give rise to the evolutionary processes of variation, selection, and retention in the socio-economic domain. Based on this evolutionary framework, we aim to elucidate the dynamics of social and economic systems, and to clarify patterns of organizational change processes. Before clarifying patterns of organizational change processes, we examine what are the basic aspects of organizations that actually cause patterns of organizational change processes. Then, this paper clarifies three patterns of organizational change processes: the external selection pattern, the practices emergence pattern, and the entrepreneurship pattern. Furthermore, these three patterns of organizational change processes are compared with each other.
