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Merger and acquisition announcements as corporate wedding narratives

Demers, Christiane; Giroux, Nicole; Chreim, Samia - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 16 (2003) 2, pp. 223-242

This study uses a discursive perspective to analyze the way in which top managers legitimize change in official announcements. It focuses on the foundations of legitimacy invoked using both Weber's typology, based on modes of authority, and the conventionalist model, stressing the constitutive...

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Managing the unwanted truth: a framework for dissent strategy

Cox Edmondson, Vickie; Munchus, George - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 20 (2007) 6, pp. 747-760

Purpose – Although decision makers and their superiors are obliged to be open to bad news, dissent, warnings, and problem signs, employees are often afraid to speak up. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the study of organizational dissent strategy used during the...

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Factors influencing organizational change efforts

Jack Walker, H.; Armenakis, Achilles A.; Bernerth, Jeremy B. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 20 (2007) 6, pp. 761-773

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the integrative influence of content, context, process, and individual differences on organizational change efforts. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from employees involved in a recent de‐merger. Using structural...

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A management communication strategy for change

Klein, Stuart M. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 9 (1996) 2, pp. 32-46

Examines the issue of communicating strategically during significant organizational change. In the author’s experience, differentiated communication tactics during different phases of organizational change can have an important impact on the level of acceptance of that change by organizational...

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Pairing myth with type of change: implications for change communication

Jabri, Muayyad - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 10 (1997) 1, pp. 21-29

Draws attention to the value of myths for therapeutic purposes; cleansing oneself of addiction to theory. Espouses the need for moving beyond the rigidity of types and quantification of change. Attempts to loosen these types and to prepare the ground for their consideration side by side with...

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Organizational change as shifting conversations

Ford, Jeffrey D. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 12 (1999) 6, pp. 480-500

This article explores producing and managing change within conversationally constructed realities. Conversations are proposed as both the medium and product of reality construction within which change is a process of shifting conversations in the network of conversations that constitute...

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Dialogue and deliberation as expressions of democratic leadership in participatory organizational change

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 25 (2012) 1, pp. 7-23

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the case, firstly, that democratic leadership, referred to as “leaderful … practice,” should be the fundamental form of leadership that characterizes participatory organizational change. The parties … leadership, dialogue, and deliberation should be included among the bedrock principles of participatory organizational change …

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The subject(ivity) of management

Darmer, Per - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 334-351

Presents and criticizes the existing management literature. Shows that there exist unsolved problems and paradoxes in the existing functionalistic management theories. Contrasts the contingency and situational theories with a constructivistic alternative theory, and shows how the unsolved...

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A dramaturgical analysis of charismatic leader discourse

Harvey, Arlene - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 14 (2001) 3, pp. 253-265

Many charismatic leaders are renowned for their exemplary rhetorical skills and powers of persuasion and their sense of drama. Interpreting the charismatic relationship as a drama invokes a cast of characters, with the charismatic leader and followers as main protagonist and co‐protagonists,...

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Leading change: insights from Jungian interpretations of The Book of Job

Smith, Charles; Elmes, Michael - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 15 (2002) 5, pp. 448-460

This paper explores insights from the psychology of C.G. Jung as it relates to leadership and the management of change …

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