David Griessbach, presented his paper project “Overcoming the Stability-Change-Dichotomy” during a RISE Colloquium on March 5th 2009 at the University of St. Gallen. In a first part two papers on the dichotomy of stability and change (Feldman & Pentland, 2003; Garud & Karnoe, 2001) and one paper on the paradox in theory building (Poole & Van de Ven, 1989) have been discussed. In the second part of the workshop, David presented his paper project.