Zmiany w organizacji jako przedmiot badań naukowych

The article deals with a synthetic review of previous studies on changes, with a special attention paid to studies conducted in organizations. Among contemporary research orientations, there have been distinguished two opposite views. According to the first one, each change may be described in deterministic categories, while according to the second view such a description is not possible, because a change may ho understood only through games played by participants of an o rganization. Thu review of studies on changes presented in the article provides an illustration for the proposed distinction made between views taking also into account elements of their historical division.