Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 25 Issue 6

Resistance to industry technological change in communities of practice: The “ambivalent” case of radio amateurs

Francesco Schiavone

This paper seeks to contribute to the literature about the resistance to industry technological change in old technology‐based communities of practice.

Professional discourses and resistance to change

Jos H. Pieterse, Marjolein C.J. Caniëls, Thijs Homan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how resistance to change might be a consequence of differences in professional discourse of professional groups working together in a…

Utilizing identity‐based resistance for diversity change: a narrative approach

Jasmin Mahadevan

This article seeks to analyze retrospective and emergent narratives in a changing organization. It aims to uncover the emic meanings of resistance to diversity change.

Resisting change: organizational decoupling through an identity construction perspective

Konstantinos Pitsakis, Marina G. Biniari, Thijs Kuin

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that explains how individual organizational members' self‐construction processes motivate them to support or reject decoupling…

Non‐human resistance in changes towards lean

Jostein Langstrand, Mattias Elg

The importance of social issues is well established in the literature on resistance to change. However, much can be gained by including physical objects in the analysis. Using…

Resistance in HROs, setback or resource?

Daniele Binci, Corrado Cerruti, Stefano Antonio Donnarumma

The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of resistance at team level in a change project focused on the maintenance activities of a high reliability organisation (HRO…

Resistance to change as a positive influencer: an introduction

Alexis Downs

Special issue on management and the future of open collaboration