Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 28 Issue 5

Preventing employee burnout during episodic organizational changes

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect that training and development have on employee burnout during episodic organizational changes. Moreover, it investigates the…

Nursing under inconsistent organizational conditions: Evidence of double bind situations?

Health care organizations often experience difficulty in aligning competing and changing demands, tasks and other organizational conditions in a consistent way, so that they…

Economic effects of reorganising an agro-food supply chain: some evidence from Poland

Much has been said about the nature of the agro-food supply chain. Yet, the consequences of reforming supply chain institutions have less often been studied, especially from an…

Crossing disciplinary, epistemological and conceptual boundaries in search of better cultural sense-making tools: A review of principal cultural approaches from business and anthropology literatures

The purpose of this paper is to compare three cultural approaches from anthropology and business literature: National Culture Approach (NCA), Corporate Culture Approach (CCA), and…

Informal economic relations and organizations: Everyday organizational life in Soviet and post-Soviet economies

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of informal economic relations (IER) in the day-to-day working of organizations, thereby opening a way to theorizing and informed…

Quiet unintended transitions? Neo-Durkheimian explanation of institutional change

The purpose of this paper is to resolve a puzzle in the explanation of organisational change, where change appears to be within-form but results unintendedly in a transition…

Fighting elephants, suffering grass: oil exploitation in Nigeria

The purpose of this paper is to understand the interactions of the different actors – the state, multinational oil and gas companies, environmental advocacy groups and local…

Opportunities and challenges for multiple-embeddedness through mergers and acquisitions in emerging economies

The purpose of this paper is to examine opportunities and challenges from multiple-embeddedness of developed countries multinational enterprises (DMNEs) in emerging economies. It…

Collective emotion regulation in an organisation – a plural agency with cognition and affect

While emotions and feelings arise in the singular personality, they may also develop a normative dimensionality in a plural agency. The authors identify the cybernetic systemic…

Identifying critical HR practices impacting employee perception and commitment during organizational change

Prior research in the area of organizational change highlights the critical role played by HR practices during organizational change as it may require altering employee behavior…

Performance of unlisted Italian companies acquired by multinationals from emerging markets : The case of Indian acquisitions

The purpose of this paper is to shed lights on both economic and social impacts associated to the increasing amount of western companies acquired by multinationals from emerging…

Research on M&As – time for consolidation

Advances in cultural theory: in honour of Gerald Mars

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