The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers

The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers
Author: David B. Szabla
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783030383237

The key developments and advancements in organizational change over the last century are the result of the research, theories, and practices of seminal scholars in the field. While most books simply outline a theorist’s model, this handbook provides invaluable insight into the contexts and motivations behind their contributions. Organized alphabetically, this handbook presents inspiring and thought-provoking profiles of prominent organizational change thinkers, capturing the professional background of each and highlighting their key insights, contributions, and legacy within the field of organizational change. This updated edition add 29 profiles to the 87 original profiles. By bringing these scholars’ experiences to life, we can begin to understand the process of organizational change and analyze what remains to be done for organizations today. This book is the first of its kind - the go-to source for learning about the research and practice of organizational change from those who invented, built, and advanced the field. This comprehensive handbook will help researchers and students to develop their organizational change research agendas, and provide practitioners with concepts, theories, and models that can easily be applied to the workplace to lead change more effectively.

Agency and Change

Agency and Change
Author: Raymond Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134357885

This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty.

Research in Organizational Change and Development

Research in Organizational Change and Development
Author: Debra A. Noumair
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839090855

Volume 28 of Research in Organizational Change and Development continues the tradition of providing insightful and thought provoking chapters with new conceptual insights and robust empirical studies. This volume provides an enriching body of knowledge on contemporary challenges in organizational change and development.

Strategy and Organization

Strategy and Organization
Author: Loizos Heracleous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2003-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107320232

Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous offers a fresh approach to the established ideas of strategy. Beginning with the historical development of the strategy field, including the influence of industrial organisation and the resource-based view, he develops a new perspective labelled an 'organisational action' view of strategy. This approach is theoretically underlain by organisation theory and takes seriously such issues as the role of agency, the need for a longitudinal focus on process, the complexities of strategy implementation, and organisational facets such as strategic choice, organisational culture, organisational discourses and learning. Combining theoretical subtlety with an applied orientation, Heracleous examines topical areas such as corporate governance, inter-organisational networks, and organising for the future. With original research and extensive surveys of the strategy literature, combined with a strong practical orientation, this book is ideal for MBA students, strategy researchers and the more thoughtful practitioner.

Crafting Strategy

Crafting Strategy
Author: Loizos Heracleous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521116554

This book presents a theoretically informed approach to creative strategizing based on building metaphorical structures that represent organizations.

Research in Organizational Change and Development

Research in Organizational Change and Development
Author: William A. Pasmore
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781908915

This book brings new perspectives to classic issues in the field such as organizational complexity, change leadership, emotional intelligence and interorganizational change.

Discourse, Interpretation, Organization

Discourse, Interpretation, Organization
Author: Loizos Heracleous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521844029

This much-needed systematic 2006 exploration of the emerging field of organizational discourse addresses scholarly perspectives as well as empirical applications of the concepts. The interpretive, functional, critical, and structurational perspectives are examined in detail, and application chapters illustrate how discourse theory can be employed in field research.