Next Concepts for Successful Organizational Change

We hope that these contributions might be a stimuli for new theories, empirical validation and ideas for practical challenges. There are many challenges in our field but we believe that well-developed theories would be highly productive for its advancement. With this in mind, we also encourage our readers to challenge theoretically and/ or empirically this special issue's papers. This is exactly how we as scholars can generate social progress and prevent research on change management ending up like alchemy or astrology