appeal has faded. The purpose of this paper is to assess the serious impediments to NPM-inspired change. Design … authors set out to synthesize the main work already available. Findings – Change, such as breaking up large public sector … hierarchies, or developing internal market-like competition and contracting out public services is indeed disruptive. Such change …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the early stages of change and the way that stories can open up forms … enabling multiple voices to be heard in the co-construction of future possibilities for change. The empirical focus is on a … interviews in the case organizations to ascertain the key dimensions of the presenting problem and to identify change options …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore issues associated with sector specific change in the Australian … leaders of possible unintended negative consequences of poorly implemented change programs. Originality/value – This current … study provides evidence that the negative behaviors which arise from the implementation of efficiency focussed change can be …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend and elaborate the notion of successful organizational change to … incorporate the concept of large system change (LSC), by developing a framework that brings together complexity and wicked … problems theories to understand how individual organizations and change agents can better influence LSC. Design …

change. Drucker addressed this long‐standing problem by arguing that decision makers must address the degree of “futurity … creativity and change.  …

Change has become one of the most studied topics in management research. Although literally hundreds of research … unanswered. There are two, logically possible, modes of change that have yet to be identified and there are at least two tensions … that go unresolved: the punctuated versus incremental change and the emergent versus deliberate change tensions. Drawing on …

This study uses a discursive perspective to analyze the way in which top managers legitimize change in official …

narrative enactment. There are practical implications for enabling change and building highly‐coordinated organizations …

to look at change and its management in the context of the offshore outsourcing of IT services. Design … the research. Findings – Change and its management form an important aspect of the process of offshore outsourcing of IT … change and its management from the perspective of the offshore outsourcing of IT services in terms of new service development …

Purpose – The importance of social issues is well established in the literature on resistance to change. However, much … resistance of non‐human actors in organizational change and contribute to an expanded understanding of resistance to change …‐network theory is used as a theoretical lens to identify non‐human resistance to change. Findings – The paper proposes that non …