Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 25 Issue 3

Shifting sands of research domains, migrating knowledge clouds and academic journals as Zeppelins (editorial considerations in mid‐2012)

Slawek Magala

Academic journals still navigate the relatively closed space of academic peer domains, but knowledge production explodes and blows up in a cloud of expanding “gases” of knowledges…

Failed culture change aimed at more service provision: a test of three agentic factors

Petra Yolanda Jorritsma, Celeste Wilderom

Headquarters managers of a medium‐sized manufacturing company initiated a culture change in five of their dispersed wholesale units. The aim was for more external service quality…

An exploration of leadership experiences among white women and women of color

Susan Key, Samuel Popkin, George Munchus, Barbara Wech, Vanessa Hill, John Tanner

The specific aims for this paper are to deal with the conflicting research findings associated with the factors that influence the success of female leaders while using race…

Existentialism and organizational behaviour: How existentialism can contribute to complexity theory and sense‐making

Robert J. Blomme, Kirsten Bornebroek‐Te Lintelo

This article aims to develop a conception consisting of insights from complexity theory and additional notions from Weick's sense‐making theory and existentialism for examining…

Servant leadership and commitment to change, the mediating role of justice and optimism

Marjolein Kool, Dirk van Dierendonck

The main aim of this study was to contribute to the change management literature by providing additional insight into how leadership encourages commitment to change.

Dynamic capability, knowledge, learning, and firm performance

Shih‐Yi Chien, Ching‐Han Tsai

This paper seeks to apply the dynamic capability framework to explore why store managers within the same chain of restaurants perform differently. Specifically, this paper argues…

Offshore outsourcing of IT services as new service development: The role of change and its management

Amber Gul Rashid

This paper is based on a portion of the research undertaken as part of the author's doctorate study and aims to look at change and its management in the context of the offshore…

The effect of partner exits on survival chances of SMEs

Simon Oertel, Peter Walgenbach

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect partner exits have on the survival chances of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, the study aims at analyzing the…