Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 25 Issue 4

Sustainability and the need for change: organisational change and transformational vision

Carla Millar, Patricia Hind, Slawek Magala

This paper aims to provide an introduction to the special issue on the theme of sustainability and the need for change.

The driving forces of sustainability

Anne M. Stoughton, James Ludema

This paper aims to provide an integrative model for how commitment to sustainability emerges at the organizational, functional, and individual levels within organizations.

Corporate environmentalism and top management identity negotiation

Hélène Cherrier, Sally V. Russell, Kelly Fielding

The aim of this paper is to examine the narratives of acceptance and resistance to the introduction of corporate environmentalism. Despite recognition that managers and senior…

Change agent sensemaking for sustainability in a multinational subsidiary

Angela van der Heijden, Jacqueline M. Cramer, Peter P.J. Driessen

This paper seeks to improve the understanding of implementation processes that achieve corporate sustainability by providing explanatory knowledge about the role of change agents…

Leading complex change with post‐conventional consciousness

Barrett C. Brown

This paper aims to document how leaders with a highly‐developed meaning‐making system design and engage in sustainability initiatives.

An interaction and networks approach to developing sustainable organizations

Annmarie Ryan, Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell, Sofia Daskou

This paper aims to present an interactions and networks approach (INA) to the issue of change for sustainability, which can bring business out of the firm‐centric impasse and lead…

Micro‐moments, choice and responsibility in sustainable organizational change and transformation: The Janus dialectic

Peter Stokes, Phil Harris

This paper's aim is to examine the catalytic and pivotal role of micro‐moments in organizations and their role in producing the possibility of sustainable or unsustainable change…

Challenges to the implementation of fiscal sustainability measures

Michel L. Ehrenhard, Dennis R. Muntslag, Celeste P.M. Wilderom

Fiscal sustainability is high on the global political agenda. Yet, implementing the needed performance‐orientation throughout public‐sector organizations remains problematic. Such…

Looking through the “greenwashing glass cage” of the green league table towards the sustainability challenge for UK universities

David R. Jones

This paper aims to critically focus on the UK's People & Planet's “green league table” in order to explore to what extent such league tables contribute to the transitional and…