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O′Connor, Carol - In: Management Development Review 6 (1993) 4

Reports on resistance to change among staff within an organization and the subsequent problems for managers. Examines … causes of resistance and categories of behaviour related to it. Suggests that better understanding of both of these issues …

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All that glitters is not gold: do materialistic cues in advertising yield resistance?

Cartwright, Robert Freeman; Opree, Suzanna J. - In: Young Consumers 17 (2016) 2, pp. 183-196

Purpose This study aims to investigate emerging adults’ emotional responses to a commercial with materialistic cues, and the commercial’s perceived and actual effect on materialism – taking the role of pre-existing attitudes toward advertising into account. Design/methodology/approach The...

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Rebel economies : warlords, insurgents, humanitarians

Di Cosmo, Nicola (ed.); Fassin, Didier (ed.); … - 2021

As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions...

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How managers defeat TQM

Feinberg, Samuel - In: The TQM Magazine 8 (1996) 2, pp. 7-10

States that resistance to TQM is a deliberate strategy of some managers and their resistance takes on many forms … practitioners to recognize and overcome the resistance and its pernicious effects on the rest of the organization. …

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Why managers oppose TQM

Feinberg, Samuel - In: The TQM Magazine 10 (1998) 1, pp. 16-19

Managerial resistance to TQM is a function of opposing principles, which emphasise expert knowledge and experience …, realism and the importance of individual creativity. Ignoring the valid points of this opposition merely drives resistance …

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Resistance to organizational change: the role of cognitive and affective processes

Bovey, Wayne H.; Hede, Andy - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 22 (2001) 8, pp. 372-382

Most previous studies of organizational change and resistance take an organizational perspective as opposed to an … individual perspective. This paper investigates the relationship between irrational ideas, emotion and resistance to change. Nine … method for approaching resistance when implementing major change. …

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Obstacles to effective organizational change: the underlying reasons

Hoag, Bruce G.; Ritschard, Hans V.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 23 (2002) 1, pp. 6-15

Our world abounds with constant, relentless change to the extent that most people no longer have an open mind about it. Unequivocally, they want it to stop. Many organizations have initiated change programs which have failed. Often, such failures are blamed on staff or on external constraints,...

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The Roles of Gentrification in Creation of Diverse Urbanities of Tokyo

Radovic, Darko - In: Open House International 35 (2010) 4, pp. 20-28

This article focuses on the role of gentrification in urban regeneration. It supports calls for a more nuanced approach to understanding of that complex phenomenon, which would include the possibility that some of its forms may represent the much needed transfusion of new and healthy energies...

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Managing process risk: planning for the booby traps ahead

Buchanan, Deborah; Connor, Michael - In: Strategy & Leadership 29 (2001) 3, pp. 23-28

Any time a company significantly changes the way it does things, there is "process risk," i.e., the risk that the business will suffer significant financial losses or harm to its reputation as a result of the change. Failure to effectively manage process risk explains why most major change...

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Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and Actions

Bannon, Ian - World Bank - 2003

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do -- 2. The Natural Resource Curse: How Wealth Can -- 3. Who Gets the Money? Reporting Resource Revenues -- 4. Where Did It Come From? Commodity Tracking Systems -- 5....

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