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Abstract

It’s often said that the only thing constant in our world today is change. Change can impact on many dimensions – physiological, psychological,  emotional,  relational,  contextual. As such, our response to change is a subject of endless curiosity and theory generation. This issue of the Review offers three papers on the subject of change, two of which offer substantive theories of change to explain how individuals resolve concerns regarding significant change events within their lives. Ekstrom et al. offer a “hypothesis of a general uncertainty­resolving pattern of behaviour” in how middle­aged women respond to the passage through menopause.  Raffanti offers a theory of how educators  “continually resolve their main concern of survival in the face of pervasive change” within their  organizations.  Fernandez and Lehmann’s paper offers a methodological perspective on the value of grounded theory for enhancing both rigour and relevance in information systems and organizational change research.