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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Cliff Oswick, David Grant, Grant Michelson and Nick Wailes

This paper aims to review the discursive formation of organizational change and to consider the possible directions that change management initiatives may take in the future.

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Purpose

This paper aims to review the discursive formation of organizational change and to consider the possible directions that change management initiatives may take in the future.

Design/methodology/approach

This closing piece identifies a traditional change discourse and an emerging change discourse. This is achieved through a review of the extant literature and the contributions to the special issue.

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The paper highlights a shift of emphases in organizational change due to environmental imperatives. In particular, it reveals a move from problem‐centred, discrete interventions to a focus on continuous improvements. It also draws attention to the emerging significance of discourse‐based approaches concerned with image, identity, organizational learning and knowledge management.

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Provides a framework for classifying different forms of organizational change activity and posits directions for future development.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 18 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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Publication date: 1 February 2005

David Grant, Grant Michelson, Cliff Oswick and Nick Wailes

This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change.

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Purpose

This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change.

Design/methodology/approach

It identifies five key contributions. Discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction of organizational change; demonstrate how the meaning attached to organizational change initiatives comes about as a result of a discursive process of negotiation among key actors; show that the discourses of change should be regarded as intertextual; provide a valuable multi‐disciplinary perspective on change; and exhibit a capacity, to generate fresh insights into a wide variety of organizational change related issues.

Findings

To illustrate these contributions the paper examines the five empirical studies included in this special issue. It discusses the potential for future discursive studies of organizational change phenomena and the implications of this for the field of organizational change more generally.

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Provides an introduction to the special issue on discourse and organizational change.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 18 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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Publication date: 1 September 2006

Chris Styles and Sid Gray

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International Marketing Review, vol. 23 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0265-1335

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Publication date: 31 August 2010

Slawomir Magala

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 23 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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