ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an idea about a generic process of organizational change. The idea, called encroaching Processes, addresses two questions: "How change occurs?" and "What are its mechanisms?" Encroaching processes and interdependence are vitally linked: encroaching cannot exist in non-interdependent environments. The existence of an encroaching process exposes changes in interdependence. Authority is the official ability to control interdependence uncertainty. The chapter presents a scenario to illustrate the generic nature of these encroaching processes. A. M. Pettigrew suggests that investigation on the process of change holds the greatest research potential for important theory on organizational change. They point to process frameworks developed by K. D. Mackenzie as a way to investigate the process itself and not merely study the variables around the process. The initial step in developing the process framework was to determine the common entities.
