Managing organizational change in the public sector is extremely challenging when adverse conditions hamper the introduction of novel organizational practices. This study builds on the case of the implementation of active labour market policies in in Italy, in an attempt to help explain the...

Within the field of strategic management, various works highlighted that the development of organizational capabilities is related, among others, to rent appropriation by stakeholders. This line of research is extended here by tackling the issue of how changes of context conditions affect the...