Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 24 Issue 4

Our organizations were never disenchanted: Enchantment by design narratives vs enchantment by emergence

David M. Boje, Ken Baskin

The purpose of this paper is to propose a typology of enchantment approaches that are related to storytelling practices in organizations: enchantment by design and enchantment by…

Consultants as legitimizers: exploring their rhetoric

Onno Bouwmeester, Ruben van Werven

The purpose of this paper is to explore how legitimizers invest in their approach to meet the suspicion of being a one‐sided advocate.

Managing to beat death: the narrative construction process

Hans Hansen

The purpose of this paper is to introduce narrative construction, a method by which participants produce a narrative to make sense of their organizational context, as well as…

Fifty years later: Mid‐career women of color against the glass ceiling in communications organizations

Donnalyn Pompper

The purpose of this paper is to examine identity intersectionalities of age, ethnicity, and gender among US professional women of color working in upper management as they…

Homegrown process improvement employing a change message model

Gregory D. Hammond, Eric B. Gresch, Dean C. Vitale

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for the employee‐led development of a planned organizational change.

Institutional change and the multinational change agent: A study of the temporary staffing industry in Spain

Bas Koene, Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in local institutional change. To what extent do multinational organizations help or hinder…

From cultural values to cross‐cultural interfaces: Hofstede goes to Africa

Terence Jackson

Hofstede's theory may be problematic from both a methodological/theoretical and practical view when applied to the 80 per cent of the globe we term developing. It is necessary to…

Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

Kenneth E. Long

Storytelling and sustainability (editorial reflections on business and rhetoric of change management)

Slawek Magala