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Examines stakeholder attitudes about change and resistance to change in a management initiative within the US State Department. Resistance to change may be an obstacle to successful implementation of reinvention initiatives based on how individuals and organizations perceive their goals are...
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determine the new business unit’s strategy and structure, to the initial company‐wide announcement of the plans. We conclude …
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The green management literature repeatedly argues that in order to behave in a sustainable manner, organizational actions will need to go beyond technical fixes and embrace new environmentally responsible values, beliefs and behaviors. In this context, developing sustainability is frequently...
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Documents a complex responsive process of profound organizational change taking place in a Dutch capital‐equipment manufacturing firm over a two‐year period beginning in September 1999. The primary focus of the initiative was on the transformation and development of the firm’s...
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Most merger and acquisition strategies are still dominated by financial analyses, legal considerations and power plays by dominant groups as individuals jockey for position and influence. Rather than focusing on the inherent dysfunctions that can emerge in the combined organization due to the...
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Action learning (AL) methods are popular technologies in programs of organizational learning (OL). However, from the perspective of critical studies, they are instrumentalist, managerialist, exclusive in design, decontextualized and apolitical. A critical analysis of the oppressive potential of...
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Co‐operation between two or more firms joined in an alliance is becoming increasingly important in competitive international business. It is a means to an end whereby firms gain from each other′s respective qualities and attributes in aiming towards business success. The degree of commitment...
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This article provides a framework for strategic adaptation to deregulation drawing on the lessons learned in the United States. A firm can adapt to deregulation by the mix of productmarket and domain management strategies that it chooses. The strategies open to a firm in turn depend upon its...
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organisations. The elements of a successful change strategy are discussed and attention is focused on interventions designed to …
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settings, and that the Quaker way can provide useful guidance in such an effort. The change strategy developed works from the …
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