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Presencing identity: organizational change and immaterial labor

Iedema, Rick; Rhodes, Carl; Scheeres, Hermine - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 4, pp. 327-337

Purpose – To examine Hardt and Negri's discussions of immaterial labor in relation to personal identity and sociality at work in a context of the postmodernization of the global economy. Design/methodology/approach – Hardt and Negri's discussions of immaterial labor are reviewed in relation...

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Answers for questions to come: reflective dialogue as an enabler of strategic innovation

Jacobs, Claus D.; Heracleous, Loizos Th. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 4, pp. 338-352

Purpose – To conceptualize and theorize dialogue's diagnostic as well as generative functions for strategic innovation and organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual development with case illustration. Findings – Strategic innovation requires shifts in existing mental...

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Loss of organizational knowledge

Treleaven, Lesley; Sykes, Chris - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 4, pp. 353-368

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the loss of organizational knowledge during organizational change processes from a knowledge perspective. Design/methodology/approach – Recent developments in the fields of organizational change and organizational knowledge are reviewed, then the...

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Looking forwards: discursive directions in organizational change

Oswick, Cliff; Grant, David; Michelson, Grant; Wailes, Nick - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 4, pp. 383-390

Purpose – This paper aims to review the discursive formation of organizational change and to consider the possible directions that change management initiatives may take in the future. Design/methodology/approach – This closing piece identifies a traditional change discourse and an emerging...

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Scientification, immune responses, and reflection

Nicolai, Alexander T.; Röbken, Heinke - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 5, pp. 416-434

Purpose – There is little consensus among academics on how to treat management fashions. The aim of this paper is to …

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Radical strategic change in the global professional network: the “Big Five” 1999‐2001

Brock, David M.; Powell, Michael J. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 5, pp. 451-468

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore and explain the dramatic organizational changes that took place over a relatively short time period in the five largest global professional networks, or GPNs – a group of organizations that were originally global accounting firms and traditionally...

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Buttonwood Park, New Bedford: from conflict to partnering

Fine, Helene - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 5, pp. 469-481

Purpose – To offer a narrative account of an intervention to resolve a conflict and thus enable a community to mobilize against a threat to its Olmsted Park and, simultaneously, to showcase a participatory action research (PAR) approach to change. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed...

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Learning and innovation: a narrative analysis

Reissner, Stefanie C. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 5, pp. 482-494

Purpose – To investigate the relationship between learning, organizational change, organizational culture and … organizational change, learning and culture are deeply interwoven. More specifically, the success of the case study company is based … to a large extent on its people focus and unique learning culture, which are reflected in, separable from and sustained …

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Shifting forms of masculinity in changing organizations: the role of testicularity

Baxter, Lynne F.; MacLeod, Alasdair - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 6, pp. 627-640

Purpose – This paper seeks to utilize the concept of testicularity put forward by Flannigan‐Saint‐Aubin to explain a shift in the hegemonic masculinities in two organizations which were unusual in being successful in realizing their aims for improvement. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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Are we living in a post‐bureaucratic epoch?

McSweeney, Brendan - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006) 1, pp. 22-37

Purpose – According to an extensive and growing literature, we are in the twilight of bureaucracy. The labels applied to the supposed new organizational form include: post‐bureaucratic; post‐modern; post‐hierarchical; and the virtual organisation. The purpose of this paper is to consider...

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