Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 15 Issue 6

Introduction

Craig E. Carroll

Serves as an introduction to the special issue on the strategic use of the past and future in organizations published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management. The issue…

Containing the nuclear past: The politics of history and heritage at the Hanford Plutonium Works

Bryan C. Taylor, Brian Freer

This paper examines the production of a particular nuclear‐organizational history to illuminate the rhetorical and political practices by which stakeholders engage that history as…

Contesting histories: Unity and division in a building society

Martin Parker

This paper reports a study of managers in a small English building society. Its intent is to stress the importance of members’ contested understandings of the history of their…

Persuasive histories: Decentering, recentering and the emotional crafting of the past

Can‐Seng Ooi

This predominantly theoretical paper concentrates on the strategic presentation of history. The dynamics of re‐presenting the past is framed as the simultaneous processes of…

Revising the past (while thinking in the future perfect tense)

Dennis A. Gioia, Kevin G. Corley, Tommaso Fabbri

Accounting for organizational history is essential to any change process. We argue, however, that the intentional revision of that history also can be important. We treat history…

The futurity of decisions as a facilitator of organizational creativity and change

Cameron M. Ford

Behavior in organizations is predominantly driven by expectations and routines derived from past experience rather than by envisioned scenarios reflecting future potentialities…

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap

Brian Coleman

Effective Top Management Teams

James R. Barker