Preface / Richard W. Woodman, William A. Pasmore, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani -- A new horizon for organizational change and development scholarship : connecting planned and emergent change / Reut Livne-Tarandach, Jean M. Bartunek -- Coaching for sustained desired change / Melvin L. Smith, Ellen B....

Preface / Richard W. Woodman, William A. Pasmore -- The professionalization of organization development : the next step in an evolving field / Allan H. Church -- Broken promises : the role of contract breaches in turnaround situations / Matthew Semadeni -- Flattening the organizational structure...

Volume Eighteen of Research in Organizational Change and Development contains nine papers that address cutting edge challenges in organizational change, report the results of change-related research, and advocate methodological advances in the field. Papers by noted international authors such as...