Considering planned change anew: Stretching large group interventions strategically, emotionally, and meaningfully

JM Bartunek, J Balogun, B Do - The Academy of Management …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Large Group Interventions, methods for involving “the whole system” in a change process,
are important contemporary planned organizational change approaches. They are well …

Leading change processes for success: a dynamic application of diagnostic and dialogic organization development

BJ Hastings, GM Schwarz - The Journal of Applied …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Change processes, the activities that enable change, and change leadership, meaning how
to lead change processes, both influence the success of change. However, a surprising …

A universe of stories: Mobilizing narrative practices during transformative change

E Dalpiaz, G Di Stefano - Strategic Management Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary: Constructing narratives of transformative change is an important but
challenging practice through which strategy‐makers attempt to influence acceptance of an …

From empathic leader to empathic leadership practice: An extension to relational leadership theory

G Jian - Human Relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Does empathy merely take place in leaders' minds? How does it help us better understand
and practice leadership? In the past, entitative relational leadership studies have mainly …

Innovation implementation in Asia-Pacific countries: A review and research agenda

S Singh, J Paul, S Dhir - Trends in Asia Pacific Business and …, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The implementation of an innovation landscape has transformed the emerging Asia-Pacific
economies in the past few decades with increased investment opportunities and …

Sensemaking, sensegiving, and leadership in strategic organizational development.

JM Bartunek, RM Krim, R Necochea, M Humphries - 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
This article discusses the creation and strategic changes that took place form 1984 through
the mid-1990s in an Organizational Development Initiative (ODI) in city government in …

Shaping strategic action through the rhetorical construction and exploitation of ambiguity

J Sillince, P Jarzabkowski, D Shaw - Organization science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper extends existing understandings of how actors' constructions of ambiguity shape
the emergent process of strategic action. We theoretically elaborate the role of rhetoric in …

Resourcefulness narratives: Transforming actions into stories to mobilize support

G Fisher, E Neubert, D Burnell - Journal of Business Venturing, 2021 - Elsevier
Entrepreneurs regularly confront resource constraints as they attempt to bring their ideas to
fruition. To overcome resource constraints, they often try to mobilize resources from external …

The role of executive symbolism in advancing new strategic themes in organizations: A social influence perspective

DC Hambrick, JB Lovelace - Academy of Management Review, 2018 - journals.aom.org
Contributing to the sensegiving literature and organizational change literature, we set forth a
theory for predicting the relative effectiveness, or ineffectiveness, of executive symbolism in …

Visionary ambiguity and strategic change: The virtue of vagueness in launching major organizational change

DA Gioia, R Nag, KG Corley - Journal of Management …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Can ambiguous vision statements help to initiate strategic change? We draw on
organizational and political concepts to make the case that ambiguity in the expression of …