Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 29 Issue 3

Performing hackathons as a way of positioning boundary organizations

Anna Seravalli, Luca Simeone

The purpose of this paper is to compare two boundary organizations situated in Malmö (Sweden) and oriented toward opening production. Particularly, it looks at how the two…

Dilemmas within commercial involvement in open source software

Malgorzata Ciesielska, Ann Westenholz

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature about the commercial involvement in open source software, levels of this involvement and consequences of attempting to…

Wikimedia movement governance: the limits of a-hierarchical organization

Dariusz Jemielniak

The purpose of this paper is to show the limits of a-hierarchical organization in the Wikimedia movement governance model. Wikimedia governance, as well as the dynamic…

Co-evolution between institutional environments and organizational change: The mediating effects of managers’ uncertainty

Xiaojun Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to interpret organizational change from a co-evolutionary perspective. It examines the co-evolution between institutional environments and…

Are you ready for the global change? Multicultural personality and readiness for organizational change

Sibel Caliskan, Idil Isik

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate employee readiness for their organizations’ global change and the predictive effect of their personality and perception of change.

High-performance work systems, joint impact of transformational leadership, an empowerment climate and organizational ambidexterity: Cross level evidence

Yi-Ying Chang

The purpose of this paper is to test a multilevel model, supported by an ambidexterity perspective, to examine the process linking high-performance work systems (HPWS) and…

The dimensions and effects of excessive change

Kevin J. Johnson

Change excessiveness is argued as a critical contextual aspect of change management. The purpose of this paper is to identify three major dimensions to change excessiveness…

Editorial

Slawomir Jan Magala

Guest editorial

Andreea Gorbatai, Dariusz Jemielniak, Mathieu O'Neil