Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 21 Issue 6

Reconsidering the role of conversations in change communication: A contribution based on Bakhtin

The purpose is to inspire a more Bakhtinian perspective of conversations in change communication. Inspiration is drawn from Bakhtin and argue that change management has, for too…

Ambiguity and ambivalence: Senior managers' accounts of organizational change in a restructured government department

Imposed change at work can present individuals with ambiguous events about which they experience ambivalence in their interpretation of meaning. This paper seeks to examine the…

Narratives as sensemaking accounts: the case of an R&D laboratory

While conventional wisdom suggests that sensemaking is targeted towards consensual understanding of the organization's intent and action, the objective of this study is to explore…

Professional identity – product of structure, product of choice: Linking changing professional identity and changing professions

The purpose of this paper is to extend the discussion of the recursive relationship between the identity of a profession and the professional identity of individuals in the…

Dominant, emergent, and residual culture: the dynamics of organizational change

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical conceptual tool for analysing the dynamics of cultural change in organizations. In so doing it seeks to address two concerns…

Constructing the legitimate buyer of management consulting services

Hiring management consultants as external support in organizational change is in the literature described as a socially and emotionally stressful activity for managers. Management…

The evolution of biotechnology in hostile financing environments

The purpose of this paper is to study the development of the biotechnology industry at the industry and firm level when the financing environment becomes hostile and assess the…

The Connect Effect

Community: The Structure of Belonging

Telling stories, making sense

Special issue on lost in translation? Contradiction, paradox and dialectics of organizational change

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