Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 29 Issue 5

Editorial

Slawomir Jan Magala

How was competitive advantage sustained in management consultancies during change: The role of dynamic capabilities

Nader Seyed Kalali, Ali Heidari

The purpose of this paper is to study the process in which dynamic capabilities renewed operational capabilities to sustain competitive advantage in management consulting firms of…

HR 2.0: linking Web 2.0 and HRM functions

Malik Faisal Azeem, Robina Yasmin

The purpose of this paper is to identify the possible gaps in use of Web 2.0 tools and human resource (HR) functional performance, and to identify the potential areas of future…

Assessing the awareness of the agile manufacturing for organizational change in Indian small manufacturing firms: An empirical investigation

Varun Kumar, Ganesh Babu, Saravanan Muthusamy

Agile manufacturing (AM) has the new scenario in the business system and it is widely seen as a “New Revolution” in the manufacturing firms. AM, which continuously focusses on the…

Linking empowering leadership and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: The role of thriving at work and autonomy orientation

Mingze Li, Wenxing Liu, Yi Han, Pengcheng Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to build a link between empowering leadership and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) based on the theory of the socially…

Exploring the perceived value of social practice theories for business-to-business marketing managers

Sid Lowe, Michel Rod, Astrid Kainzbauer, Ki-Soon Hwang

Drawing on sociological theories of Giddens, Bourdieu and Goffman, the purpose of this paper is to explore how different relationships are characterized between actors in…

Higher order change: a transorganizational system diagnostic model

Dale Ainsworth, Ann E. Feyerherm

Transorganizational systems (TSs) are a collection of organizations that have agreed to work interdependently to accomplish a task too large in scope for a single organization. TS…

Can the staff recognition ensure planned process of organizational change?

Amira Sghari

Employee recognition is presented in the literature as a mean to achieve change according to a schedule already established by the management of the enterprise (planning process)…

De-commoditizing change management: A call for the re-positioning of change management on IT projects

Derek Robert Brown, Dennis Rose, Ray Gordon

The purpose of this paper is to begin the discussion about re-positioning change management in information technology projects and to propose a framework for improving the quality…

STEM faculty response to proposed workspace changes

Elizabeth D. Wilhoit, Patricia Gettings, Parul Malik, Lauren B. Hearit, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Brad Ludwig

The purpose of this paper is to use an affordance approach to understand how university faculty use and value their workspace and respond to proposed spatial changes.

The role of mindfulness on employee psychological reactions to mergers and acquisitions

Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of mindfulness to employee psychological reactions to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and its consequence on behavioral…