Managing Organizational Change: Negotiating Meaning and Power-Resistance Relations

Managing Organizational Change: Negotiating Meaning and Power-Resistance Relations

Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an “organizational becoming” perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the micro-context of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural and ongoing; it occurs in every-day interactions as actors eng...

Managing Dependency Relations in Inter-Organizational Models

In various fields like software development, information systems development, and ebusiness development, model-based approaches allow specifying different models of which each emphasizes one specific aspect or part of the software system. In this thesis we consider particularly model-based approaches for defining inter-organizational cooperations. These cooperations are usually complex in terms...

Trust, Power and Control in Trans-Organizational Relations

Information systems, power, and organizational relations: a case study

Negotiating challenges and climate change

The difficulties in negotiating a post-2012 regime of binding targets and timetables and the decisions of the US, Canada, and Russia on the Kyoto Protocol regime have led to pessimism about the future of the climate regime. Negotiation issues for different coalitions and actors are placed in a wider historical context by examining the key challenge facing the evolving longterm climate change ne...