Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore how employee attitudes affect management behaviour in the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) setting. The paper focuses on the co‐evolutionary processes of practices and elements of the social structure, i.e. simultaneous top‐down and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a research model on Taiwan's National Police Administration setting, extending the theory of planned behavior, reasoned action, and expectancy‐valence, and developing the more neglected aspects of the goal‐setting theory....

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide guidance on specific ways by which organizations can overcome resistance by matching readiness strategies with forms of resistance. Design/methodological approach – The paper summarizes literature on resistance to change and readiness to change, leading...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods used and the qualitative success of organizational development (OD) supported efforts to alter the culture and enhance agency outcomes of an academic health center. Design/methodology/approach – Myers‐Briggs, FIRO‐B, and DISC...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand failure to change by examining patterns of coherent structure and agency characteristics in changing organizations in specific sectors and to provide specific recommendations for intervention in these patterns. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study recently published research to identify findings that provide research‐based guidance to organizational change agents and managers in addressing individual resistance to organizational change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effect of top management team (TMT) characteristics on corporate turnaround performance in declining firms under conditions of environmental stability and turbulence. Design/methodology/approach – Theoretical hypotheses were...

Purpose – This paper aims to determine what leader‐leading competencies enable management of turbulent, uncertain change and what principles from a complex adaptive systems perspective constitute it. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a qualitative research case study. Findings –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to retroactively study a positive organizational change by showing how the elements of readiness creation and the change strategies in a widely accepted change model applied to a 20‐month change in one US Army company. Design/methodology/approach –...