Employees' attitudes towards organizational change are a critical determinant in the change
process. Researchers have therefore tried to determine what underlying concepts that affect …

Context: In the workplace, some individuals engage in the voluntary and intentional
generation, promotion, and realization of new ideas for the benefit of individual performance …

Change impact analysis is a change management activity that previously has been studied
much from a technical perspective. For example, much work focuses on methods for …

Every software system undergoes changes, for example, to add new features, fix bugs, or
refactor code. The importance of understanding software changes has been widely …

Purpose Global companies in the digital service industry are experiencing a pressing
urgency for ongoing transformations caused by external factors driven by the need to …

Organizations are increasingly required to improve their ability to enhance employees'
support or acceptance for change initiatives. In studies that have examined the conditions in …

CONTEXT: New processes, tools, and practices are being introduced into software
companies at an increasing rate. With each new advance in technology, software managers …

abstract It was hypothesized that employees' perceptions of an organizational culture strong
in human relations values and open systems values would be associated with heightened …

Understanding, managing and reducing costs and risks inherent in change are key
challenges of software maintenance and evolution, addressed in empirical studies with …

Software evolves with continuous source-code changes. These code changes usually need
to be understood by software engineers when performing their daily development and …