Traditional approaches to organizational change have been dominated by assumptions
privileging stability, routine, and order. As a result, organizational change has been reified …

Change is a ubiquitous notion that fascinates and frustrates. The starting point for most
attempts at theorizing change begins with the philosophical assumption that stability and …

This text focuses on the use of organisation development, which is a process that applies
behavioural science knowledge and practices to help organisations achieve greater …

The literature on organizational change abounds with models that map the trajectory of
change with ordered stages or episodes. However, limited progress has been made in …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical conceptual tool for analysing
the dynamics of cultural change in organizations. In so doing it seeks to address two …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to challenge some taken-for-granted practices related
to organizational change in order to understand how organizational change as practice is …

Since Heraclitus change has baffled, perplexed and bemused. Organisational change is no
exception; such change is an empirical fact but the extant conventional literature largely fails …

Organization theory is, as the title of this special issue suggests, at a crossroads. At a time
when the world of and around organizations is changing very fast, and when the need to …

This revised and extended second edition evaluates the diverse approaches to
organizational change that have defined the field. Explaining the assumptions and …

This article proposes that our current terminology and conceptual language for
organizational change make it difficult to address the range of changes confronting …