The management of change in public organizations: A literature review

BS Kuipers, M Higgs, W Kickert, L Tummers… - Public …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public
organizations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to …

The Future of Writing and Reviewing for IJMR

O Jones, C Gatrell - International Journal of Management …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this editorial, the co‐editors‐in‐chief undertake a number of tasks related to International
Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR). They begin by reviewing the objectives set out by …

Sensemaking in organizations: Taking stock and moving forward

S Maitlis, M Christianson - Academy of management annals, 2014 - journals.aom.org
Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

Paradox as a metatheoretical perspective: Sharpening the focus and widening the scope

MW Lewis, WK Smith - The Journal of Applied Behavioral …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Organizations are rife with tensions—flexibility versus control, exploration versus
exploitation, autocracy versus democracy, social versus financial, global versus local …

Creative synthesis: Exploring the process of extraordinary group creativity

S Harvey - Academy of management review, 2014 - journals.aom.org
This article provides insight into how some groups achieve extraordinary levels of creativity
by reconsidering the collective process through which new ideas develop. Previous …

Entanglements in practice

SV Scott, WJ Orlikowski - MIS quarterly, 2014 - JSTOR
Information systems researchers have shown an increasing interest in the notion of
sociomateriality. In this paper, we continue this exploration by focusing specifically on …

Who is 'the middle manager'?

N Harding, H Lee, J Ford - Human relations, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Middle managers occupy a central position in organizational hierarchies, where they are
responsible for implementing senior management plans by ensuring junior staff fulfil their …

The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship

O Henfridsson, Y Yoo - Organization Science, 2014 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this paper, we develop a process model of trajectory shifts in institutional
entrepreneurship. We focus on the liminal periods experienced by institutional …

A matter of life and death

M Jones - MIS quarterly, 2014 - JSTOR
Sociomateriality has been attracting growing attention in the Organization Studies and
Information Systems literatures since 2007, with more than 140 journal articles now referring …

(Re) presenting 'sustainable organizations'

H Tregidga, M Milne, K Kearins - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how organizations represent themselves in relation to sustainable
development in 365 publicly available corporate reports from 1992 to 2010. This period of …