Deconstructing resistance to organizational change: a social representation theory approach

Deconstructing resistance to organizational change – a social representation theory approach

E-government Movements of Organizational Change: a Social Shaping Approach

The landscape of p ublic administration has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few years with radical IT based initiatives that fundamentally affect the way that government bodies perform their activities. In that context new ICT's have repeatedly been presented as having the qualities, through the organizational re-engineering they enable, to bring about a transformation of public service ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Using Social Networks Theory as a Complementary Perspective to the Study of Organizational Change

This paper contributes to the literature on organizational change by examining organizations as social entities embedded in inter-organizational networks. In contrast with extant research that focuses on macro environmental and internal factors to explain organizational change, we put forth the social network surrounding the firm as a major driver of any change process. Specifically, we examine...

A theory of organizational readiness for change

BACKGROUND Change management experts have emphasized the importance of establishing organizational readiness for change and recommended various strategies for creating it. Although the advice seems reasonable, the scientific basis for it is limited. Unlike individual readiness for change, organizational readiness for change has not been subject to extensive theoretical development or empirical ...