PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to investigate what happens when a lack of role-sending results in ambiguous change agent roles during a large scale organisational reconfiguration. The authors consider the role of sensemaking in resolving role ambiguity of middle manager change agents and the consequences of this for organisational restructuring. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Data were col...

This paper explores the competing role of organisational culture in change towards sustainability. Drawing on values framework, data was collected by interviewing senior executives and sustainability managers a leading multinational garment manufacturing organisation based Sri Lanka. The study finds that tends to play proactive going beyond compliances regulatory requirements Four cultural appe...

The traditional approach to information systems development has proved to be too monolithic for dealing with highly complex, multidimensional, organisational change issues. In the traditional paradigm, little attempt is made in understanding how the proposed system relates to other organisational components or the effect that the system will have on the enterprise itself. This lack of knowledge...

Several theoretical and empirical studies identify main components of Organisational Flexibility (OF) and show the relations between them. However, comprehensive analysis of these interrelations over time through the implementation of organisational change remains a challenge. This article presents a simulation model of OF when change strategies are implemented confronting several states of env...