Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 16 Issue 5

Internal change agents’ view of the management of change problem

Ayse Saka

The vital importance of change management in today's competitive climate has been widely investigated. While the need for successful change management is intensively proclaimed by…

E‐business and organisational change: Reconciling traditional values with business transformation

Paul Jackson, Lisa Harris

While much attention has recently been focused on the problems facing Internet start‐ups, the challenge of e‐business affects a much broader constituency of organisations. For…

Innovative organizational structures and performance: A case study of structural transformation to “groovy community centers”

Emmanuel Ogbonna, Lloyd C. Harris

Although there has been substantial academic and practitioner interest into innovative structural arrangements, the study of structural transformation and the structural practices…

United we stand, or else?: Exploring organizational attempts to control emotional expression by employees on September 11, 2001

Michaela Driver

The purpose of this paper is to explore the control of emotions in organizations. An analysis of stories collected from members of different organizations who experienced the…

Post‐bureaucracy – control through professional freedom

Christian Maravelias

This article develops a framework for understanding autonomy and control in post‐bureaucratic organizations. It reviews two dominant discourses on post‐bureaucracy – the…

The telling of violence: Organizational change and atrocity tales

Melanie Bryant, Julie Wolfram Cox

This paper explores the retrospective construction of atrocity narratives of organizational change in primary industries of the Latrobe Valley, located in southeast Australia…

Fixing the language of change? A response

David Collins

Offers a response to a discussion of the language of change, which appeared in an earlier issue of JOCM (Vol. 14, 2001).While applauding any attempt to develop an appreciation of…

Learning to Change: A Guide for Organization Change Agents

Jeanne Zaptin