Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify means and opportunities available to managers in Romanian companies in order to successfully undergo the process of integration in the European Union, by accepting the cultural diversity in the global organization in the twenty‐first...

Purpose – This paper signals departure from a theoretical perspective on organizational culture in mergers and acquisitions based on a binary opposition between coherence and pluralism. The paper aims to outline another, dialogic perspective on cultural transformations in mergers and...

Purpose – It is commonly argued that the exponential growth in the application of internet technology is one of the most important recent developments in business and management. However, although much research has been conducted on the strategic and operational aspects of the internet, there...

Purpose – Organizational learning and unlearning is a popular and important topic in business as well as academia. Even though there is a plethora of studies on organizational learning, surprisingly little is known about the conceptualization and operationalization of organizational...

Purpose – The aim is to analyse managerial behaviour using narrative analysis to identify stories that are often ignored, silenced or missed by the hegemonic managerialist narrative. Design/methodology/approach – An ethnographic narrative based on an 18 month period of participant...

Purpose – A description of the managerial impact on change processes during a takeover with middle management in the telecom industry. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to use storytelling as a form of analysis of different positions within an organization, as described in a case...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to give an account of a self‐evaluation process in a change programme within the US Coast Guard. Design/methodology/approach – This is an autoethnographical account as form of reflection on a leadership in position facilitating change within the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical conceptual tool for analysing the dynamics of cultural change in organizations. In so doing it seeks to address two concerns in the organization culture literature: issues of time and perspective which underlie the contested...

Purpose – This paper has three purposes. The first is to introduce the concept of fantasy, based on Lacanian pyschoanlysis, in order to link theoretically the role of narrative and affect in organizational strategies of control. The second is to use this concept to illuminate the fantasmatic...