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Synchronicity: a post‐structuralist guide to creativity and change
Durant, Rita - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 15 (2002) 5, pp. 490-501
inner and outer event. Insofar as creativity is dependent upon chance for novelty, then creativity and synchronicity may … creativity. The nature of synchronicity, the relationship between synchronicity and creativity, and the implications of this … emotion in creativity, allowing for movement across metaphorical and physical boundaries, honoring the body, and maintaining a …
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The futurity of decisions as a facilitator of organizational creativity and change
Ford, Cameron M. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 15 (2002) 6, pp. 635-646
past experience has been blamed for a variety of problems associated with individual and organizational creativity and … creativity and change.  …
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Knowledge management in its context: Adapting structure to a knowledge creating culture
Sabri, Hala - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 15 (2005) 2, pp. 113-128
This study focuses on knowledge management in relation to its organizational context. It argues that knowledge management is not just computer and information systems; it embodies organizational processes that seek to augment the creative, innovative capacity of human beings. Specifically, the...
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Employees: capital or commodity?
Byrne, Roger - In: The Learning Organization 8 (2001) 1, pp. 44-50
Companies increasingly like to describe themselves as “knowledge companies”, that store and share experience and knowledge and facilitate open exchange of both. However, trends in career development encourage the “new deal” of employment, whereby employability is dependent on the mutual...
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Public administration: From bureaucratic culture to citizen‐oriented culture
Claver, Enrique; Llopis, Juan; Gascó, José L.; … - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (1999) 5, pp. 455-464
This paper analyzes how public administration may improve the service it offers to citizens through a suitable organizational culture; for this purpose, it starts by studying the specific features of the culture of public administration. In this respect, it analyzes the existing taxonomies in...
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Strategies for Managing the TQ Agenda
Smith, Stuart; Tranfield, David; Foster, Morris; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 14 (1994) 1, pp. 75-88
Reports the findings of a research project into the development of a total quality methodology for strategic use by senior management teams aimed at enabling them to audit current approaches, revise where ecessary, and then implement in order to produce TQM programmes which are resilient in the...
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The Paradoxical Gravity of Planned Organizational Change
Höpfl, Heather - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 7 (1994) 5, pp. 20-31
Addresses the notion of “phoria” in organizational change. Uses the device of the myth of the Erl König to explore the appropriation of emotion in organizations and considers the role of rhetoric, liturgy and ritual in the preparation for changes. Argues that organizations trivialize the...
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New paradigms for change? Theories of organization and the organization of theories
Collins, David - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 9 (1996) 4, pp. 9-23
Like most fields, the field of organizational change management has altered over time. In recent years the field has taken a “cultural turn”. Accordingly its methodological focus has altered somewhat. Sets out to analyse the claim that this methodological adjustment is reflective of the...
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Conceptualizing business process re‐engineering
Ahmed, P.K.; Simintiras, A.C. - In: Business Process Re-engineering & Management Journal 2 (1996) 2, pp. 73-92
Examines business process re‐engineering (BPR) from a theoretical standpoint. Elaborates on antecedent concepts to the BPR construct and highlights their usefulness in strengthening the conceptual foundation of BPR. Develops a model of BPR based on the elements of process, radical...
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Managerial behaviours over MIS growth stages
Lu, Hsi‐Peng - In: Management Decision 33 (1995) 7, pp. 40-46
To improve the likelihood of system success and user involvement, an MIS department manager has to deal with people and lead them under given user styles and organizational culture. For this reason, the managerial behaviour of MIS managers plays an important role in developing MIS. First...
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