About this book -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- The context and meaning of change -- Organizations and their changing environments -- The nature of organizational change -- Changing organizations -- Organizational design, structure and change -- Culture and change -- Power, politics...

"The rhetoric of business continues to tell us that the pace of change is accelerating and that anticipating and responding to change are essential for organizational survival. Indeed, it is easy to find examples of organizations, small and large, that have ceased to exist because events...