Purpose – This paper seeks to contribute to the literature about the resistance to industry technological change in old technology‐based communities of practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports an explanatory case study in order to achieve this purpose: the resistance to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of archetypes on collective fantasies and covert ideations and argue that archetypal fantasies, dreams and emotions impact organisational performance all the way down to the bottom line. Design/methodology/approach – The author...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw from: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams , citing the Dream of Irma's Injection , to illustrate psychic organization and the relation of psychic to social organization; The Dream of the Failed Dinner Party , to illustrate the inter‐individual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the merger of two large State departments and the cultural change program orchestrated by the Human Resources (HR) department. This study reveals the instrumental role played by some managers who accelerated the cultural change process through...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the organizational change management that characterizes the transitional moments of family businesses may open a transcendental horizon from which a business model arises that is built around the sovereignty of the family institution and...

Purpose – The question of whether the words “American Dream” point to something of substance is at the heart of the authors' inquiry. James Truslow Adams coined the term in his 1933 book The Epic of America as a way to re‐establish a sense of optimism decimated by the Great Depression....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what meanings organizational actors and researchers invest in the term trust, to provide insights from a qualitative perspective of employees' trust in their supervisors and in organizational management when change occurs, and to highlight the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider a psychoanalytic explanation for the challenges facing social entrepreneurs in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach was used, in an exploratory study involving semi‐structured interviews with, and observation of,...