Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 29 Issue 1

Legacy: Professor Slawomir Magala (Slawek)

Professor Slawomir Magala is a full professor of Cross-Management at the Department of Organization and Personnel Management in Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus…

Time had but effaced his image when the show began: A reflection on the academic career of Slawomir Magala

The purpose of this paper is to outline the background and the plot of the academic career of Slawomir Magala, particularly from the point of view represented by the author who…

Destabilizing or stabilizing the identity of Slawek Magala?

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Slawek Magala and the author have a great deal in common and that the author is putting the differences to an interesting use in…

(Un)Conditional surrender? Why do professionals willingly comply with managerialism

The purpose of this paper is to explore the question – why do professionals surrender their autonomy? This paper looks at the case of academics, in particular business school…

Managing research projects: the rhetoric of judgment as a source of creativity

The purpose of this paper is to present new aspects of the tension between creativity and productivity and improve the understanding on how research can be developed in very…

Slawek Magala’s view on management of meaning and organisational change: An essay in honour of Slawek Magala

The purpose of this paper is to show that Slawek Magala’s theory of management of meaning in organisations can be considered as a step towards a generic theory of organisational…

Collective cultural mind programming: escaping from the cage

Although vanquished in anthropology, the notion “national culture” as a set of unique, shared, closed, enduring, coherent, determinate subjective values has been repopularized in…

National habitus: an antidote to the resilience of Hofstede’s “national culture”?

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize Geert Hofstede’s conceptualization of national culture and provide an alternative beyond purely constructivist conceptualizations of…

Professionalization through dispersed institutional entrepreneurship: The case of the intercultural community

The purpose of this paper is to address the decreasing role of professional associations in governing the work of entrepreneurial, knowledge-intensive professions such as…

Cross-cultural management and digital societies: Magala’s lasting contribution to the emerging research field

– The purpose of this paper is to see how digital societies’ studies can be inspired by cross-cultural management.

Developing cross-cultural managerial skills through social media

– The purpose of this paper is to familiarize managers with alternative social media applications of cross-cultural training approaches.

Slawomir Magala, generalist with a cause