Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 23 Issue 6

The failure of transition: Identities, ideologies and imaginary institutions in times of global capitalist crisis

Marianna Fotaki, Steffen Böhm, John Hassard

This paper aims to link the process of “transition”, which started in the former Soviet system about 20 years ago, to the recent global financial and economic crisis. The paper…

The fantasy of the organizational One: Postdemocracy, organizational transformation and the (im)possibility of politics

Timon Beyes, Christina Volkmann

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the politics of and in organizational transformations in the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall and Germany's reunification.

Developing Tanzanian civil society: Desiring democracy, self‐empowerment and the World Bank

Marinko Banjac

The development of Tanzanian civil society is widely understood to be one of the key processes in the democratization of the country, and this vision is also shared by the World…

“Catching up with ‘civilisation’”: reflections on language spread in Poland

Martyna Śliwa

The purpose of this paper is to address the intensive spread of the English language in Central and Eastern Europe as an aspect of postsocialist transition.

On identity reformation and local transition: a case from Poland

Dorota Joanna Bourne

The purpose of this paper is to explore and understand the process of successful introduction of total quality management (TQM) in Poland and the way in which it impacted on…

Post‐socialist gender transformations and women's experiences of employment: Movements between continuity and change in Bulgaria

Mariya Stoilova

This paper seeks to demonstrate that gender research is crucial to understanding post‐socialist transformations and wider changes in social life. Focused on employment experiences…

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