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I was extremely fortunate to begin my career in the late 1960s at a time when the field of ‘implementation’ was literally being born. Professionally speaking, I grew up together with implementation over the past three decades. This chapter is a professional autobiography of ideas and concepts covering this dynamic and fertile period of growth in the study of change processes. It is not a review of research. Rather it is an attempt to capture the evolution of the study of change from the perspective of someone who has devoted his work to chronicling, synthesizing and sometimes creating the core concepts that define the study and doing of change.
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Fullan, M. (2005). The Meaning of Educational Change: A Quarter of a Century of Learning. In: Lieberman, A. (eds) The Roots of Educational Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4451-8_12
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