Change and continuity in writing about change and continuity / guest editors: Pauline Gleadle, Nelarine Cornelius, Eric Pezet and Graeme Salaman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleadle, Pauline.

Cornelius, Nelarine.

Pezet, Eric.

Salaman, Graeme.

Series:

Journal of Organizational Change Management - Issue 4, Volume 20

Journal of Organizational Change Management ; 20, no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The insights into organisational change generated by this e-book will be readily apparent but it is useful to point out one interesting feature of this set of papers; by focusing on change they inevitably and necessarily also focus on non-change - on continuity. Managers involved in advocating or 'championing' change frequently focus so emphatically and positively on the necessity for and virtues of the change in question (sometimes defined as 'reform' so as to rule out the legitimacy or possibility of the rational or moral basis of any questioning or 'resistance') that they in effect disregar

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Freedom and autonomy in the university enterprise; Managers as lazy, stupid careerists?; Knowledge workers in the in-between: network identities; Borders of "the boundaryless career"; Knowledge management in a New Zealand tree farming company; Responding to crisis through strategic knowledge management; Contested practice: multiple inclusion in double-knit organizations; Book review; Call for papers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-07904-9

9786611079048

1-84663-523-3

OCLC:

182548980