Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 36 Issue 2

Does workplace digitalization matter in linking transformational leadership and innovative culture to employee engagement?

Lai Wan Hooi, Ai Joo Chan

Engaged employees are an organization’s competitive advantage because the employees are willing to strive for organizational excellence. This paper examines employee engagement…

The influence of need for cognition and need for emotion on elderly responses to advertising: an exploratory study and implications for change in management

Imen Safraou, Denis Guiot

This paper examines the relationship between “chronological age” and the individual difference variables: “Need for cognition” (NFC) and “Need for emotion” (NFE). More…

How organizations can benefit from entrainment: a systematic literature review

Danny Sandra, Jesse Segers, Robert Giacalone

To provide ways of how organizations can benefit from entrainment, the purpose of this paper is to create a better theoretically grounded understanding of entrainment in…

Turn calamities into blessings: the impact of resource reconfiguration and firm resilience on the company's recovery and growth in the COVID-19 times

Shujie Zhang, Qian Sun, Lejiao Dai, Xingyuan Wang

The purpose of this paper is to construct an integrated theoretical framework of firm resilience, and examine the relationship between resource reconfiguration, firm resilience…

Fit for functional differentiation: new directions for personnel management and organizational change bridging the fit theory and social systems theory

Augusto Sales, Juliana Mansur, Steffen Roth

This conceptual paper seeks to bridge two existing theories in a bid to broaden our analytical scope when studying the process of onboarding, retention and exclusion of…

Improving self-regulated learning competencies of service employees: roles of regulatory appraisals and supportive resources

A. Banu Elmadag, Mehmet Okan, Ece Kurtuldu

In the era of technological advancements such as artificial intelligence and robotics, the working environment of service employees is changing, and the need to self-regulate…

“Back and forth” between the individual and the group: collaboration and emotional leadership in science

Carlos Lopez Carrasco, Simone Belli

In this article, the authors explore the emotional dimension of the strategies that researchers carry out to foster collaboration within research groups in science.

The materiality of organizational identity: a case of Codorníu wineries

Albert Sunyer, Josep Domingo Hinojosa Recasens, Jenny Gibb

The purpose of this research is to deepen understanding of the materiality in organizational identity (OI) by describing how physical objects support, instantiate and communicate…

Strategic change in the health sector: a literature review and future challenges

Sérgio A.F. Pereira, João J. Ferreira, Hussain Gulzar Rammal, Marta Peris-Ortiz

The health sector is increasingly dynamic and complex, in which (strategic) change has become a constant in the sector's adaptation to different challenges. This study aims to…

Senior entrepreneurs: the impact of temporal perception on the entrepreneurial process

Dominique Biron, Etienne St-Jean

Longer life expectancy brings a new phenomenon: senior entrepreneurship. Whereas starting a business involves investing energy, time, money or other types of resources, ageing is…