They enable
researchers to examine the recurrence and accumulation
of progressions. This permits replicating
theoretical ideas in successive time periods
and also to analyzing how the changing context
from previous periods impacts subsequent events
in current periods. Thus for example. Jay (2013)
considers three successive time periods in the
life of the energy alliance he studied that were
punctuated by changing definitions of success.
Monin et al. (2013) examine the dynamics of
sensemaking and sensegiving about norms of justice
in three periods involving eight different issues
associated with a major merger. Lok and de
Rond (2013) examine and compare five successive
incidents in which institutional rules were
violated and repaired, and Wright and Zammuto
(2013) compare two successive incidences of rule
change in the game of cricket