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Management Scholarship and Organisational Change - Representing Burns and Stalker (Paperback)
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Management Scholarship and Organisational Change - Representing Burns and Stalker (Paperback)
Series: Finance, Governance and Sustainability
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Change is a crucial and inescapable process for many organisations.
It remains a constant challenge for managers and many change
management initiatives fail. Burns and Stalker's seminal text on
managing change, The Management of Innovation, has often been used
as a basis for research in mainstream management journals and has
been represented as an important theory in popular and
long-established management textbooks. The issues raised in that
book are still being grappled with by academics and practitioners
today. Miriam Green provides a critical analysis of the mainstream
construction of knowledge on change management through an
examination of representations of that text. The main thesis of her
book is that this literature, though valuable, does not provide a
full picture. Its objectivist approach ignores the role of other
factors raised in the original study. These factors include the
effects of power, politics, resistance and employee influence on
the outcomes of managerial change strategies and on other
organisational processes, with important consequences for the
understanding of change initiatives by both academics and
practitioners. This is part of an ongoing debate in management
studies and more widely in the social sciences about theoretical
approaches and research methods. The originality of this book lies
in its in-depth comparison of an entire monograph on organisations
facing technological and commercial change, with an equally
in-depth analysis of the ways this work has been represented and
used as a basis for teaching and research. It highlights the
limitations of the exclusive use of one approach to explain the
complications arising from organisational change. It challenges the
scientific justification offered for that approach and supports
arguments for more inclusive and sustainable scholarship, of
greater relevance to academics, managers and other organisational
stakeholders.
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