Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine an entrepreneur’s attempt to gain legitimacy and change institutions … the actual change efforts by an entrepreneur to gain legitimacy. Social implications – This study provides a nuanced look … at actual attempts to change institutions. Originality/value – Institutional judo offers a new change mechanism within …

strategies, legitimacy, organizational identity and logics. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by … resources unfold and are translated into entrepreneurial behavior, organizational identity and legitimacy, and help provide … access to care budgets. Design/methodology/approach Using entrepreneurship, identity formation and legitimacy building as …

development of a successful change process that borrows from legitimacy theory and legitimation in discourse. The findings show …/implications – While this change process, grounded in religious discourse, cannot be assumed to work across contexts, future research can …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case of proactive change that occurred in a large organization in …

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

way the employees perceived their flexibility and personal involvement in their work. By employing Taylor’s initial works … increasing employees’ work engagement, the IT system had the opposite effect. Demonstrates that the new IT system contributed to … a deskilling of the employees, to a more task‐oriented approach to their work, and to increased employees …

Total quality management has gained increasing popularity as a method to introduce transformational change in an … match principles long stated in philosophies of organizational development and change. Whereas most investigations have …‐test‐post‐test field study at a large rehabilitation hospital showed significant improvements in work attitudes (job satisfaction …

work settings. Furthermore, since individuals must change their behaviour in order for organizational improvement to occur …, planned organizational change can be viewed as an attempt to change organizational work setting characteristics such that … individuals will adopt new, desirable behaviours. Based on these premisses, explores the relationship between organizational work …

Contends that predictions of the end of work as we know it, and a bleak jobless future, as we head into the twenty …‐first century, derive from a modernist paradigm of work ‐ a paradigm that has been the prevailing paradigm for the past 100 years …. Seeks to provide a more hopeful and humane paradigm for the future of work ‐ a model based on spiritual guidelines and …

conditions. How we choose to address the pathologies, and our health, can change. We may complain, deny, point fingers and cry …

research either within elite sports teams or other organizations facing similar environmental change is needed to extend and … rare account of change within elite sports. The asset maximisation approach developed within this case study illustrates …/methodology/approach – This paper utilises a three year case study from elite sport, an under‐represented sector in the management literature but …