...Anna Rogozińska-Pawełczyk Purpose Psychological contracts are continuously reinterpreted, particularly during transitional episodes that intensify sensemaking processes and redirect employees' attention to the exchange relationship. This article conceptualizes maternity return as a change episode...

... the changes between strategies in the internationalization process. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative multiple case study approach is used to explore drivers of the internationalization scope of born globals. Seven born globals from the digital and software solution sectors were depicted...

...Tom A.S. McLaren; Erich C. Fein; Michael Ireland; Aastha Malhotra Purpose The purpose of this empirical study was to test whether presenting organizational change in a way that enhances employee self-worth will result in increased employee support for the identified change. In doing so, we...

... and validated to measure it. Originality/value This study clarifies and measures an emergent construct in the career transition and organizational change literature. Udayan Dhar can be contacted at: udayan.dhar@bucknell.edu 12 07 2023 22 08 2023 25 09 2023 © Udayan Dhar...

... insight into identity dynamics when the capability of the target firm is the motive of the acquisition. As single case studies allow the investigation of change (Pettigrew, 1990) within a revelatory setting (Yin, 2009), we used a qualitative case study to answer our research question: How do...

... context, organizations need to continuously adapt, adjust and change their routines in order to remain competitive. Drawing upon a qualitative study focusing on three Southeastern European countries (Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia), this paper explores the role played by managerial feedback on routine change...

...Adriana Tiron-Tudor; Delia Deliu; Nicoleta Farcane; Adelina Dontu A hybrid systematic literature review of relevant literature is presented based on recent research papers published in highly ranked scientific journals that capture how accounting organizations might manage the changes induced...

...Herman Aksom; Inna Tymchenko Purpose This essay raises a concern about the trajectory that new institutionalism has been following during the last decades, namely an emphasis on heterogeneity, change and agentic behavior instead of isomorphism and conformist behavior. This is a crucial issue from...

... it visible what approach has been most often missing. Findings This paper shows that the offered proposals can be categorized into the following two models: (1) armchair theorizing; (2) present capturing. This categorization also highlights a third model – change sensitizing – that is based on shifting...

...Jeremias Jesaja De Klerk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore change leadership in the context of traumatically experienced change. “Being-centeredness” is proposed as a change leadership paradigm, with the leader becoming a facilitative instrument who assists restoration of a healthy...

... at: eac@asu.edu 03 04 2017 12 10 2017 06 02 2018 19 04 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Change Leadership Complexity Adaptive Absorptive Generative An organization’s operating environment...

... selected six relevant interviewees were employed. One sample t-test, ANOVA and content analysis techniques were used to analyze data. The finding of this paper reflected that tenets of adaptive design, its principles and tactics are important tools to lead and institutionalize change...

... employees are involved earlier in the process rather than marginalized to “resistant bystanders.” Originality/value These findings give insight into the use of narratives as practical meaning construction in an organizational context, and in relation to strategy communication and change. Change...

...Alfons Van Marrewijk; Leonore Van den Ende Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between the spatial intervention of open-plan offices in a university, the consequential change in work practices of faculty members and how these practices appropriate the designed space...

... a twofold “security paradox” related to information security that has never been studied in work settings. Change Innovation SME Entrepreneur BYOD Security paradox Yves Barlette can be contacted at: y.barlette@montpellier-bs.com 01 03 2017 10 07 2017 29 10 2017 ©...

...Buriata Eti-Tofinga; Gurmeet Singh; Heather Douglas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships and influences of change enablers for social enterprises in organizations undergoing cultural change. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a survey of social...

...Noufou Ouedraogo; Mohammed Laid Ouakouak Purpose Successful change implementation is crucial for organizational prosperity, and even survival. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of personal trust and communication on change success, through affective commitment. Design...

...Christina Anna Elisabeth Claßen; Reinhard Schulte Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of how conflicts, caused by the specifics of family businesses – the familiness – impact change in family businesses. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on 21 semi...

... depicts choice points, chosen and rejected trajectories, and upward and downward environmental drafts, as well as a multi-dimensional environment, as a way of re-conceptualizing approaches to space, time, and change in organization studies. Originality/value The authors propose that the model provides...

...Katalin Pádár; Béla Pataki; Zoltán Sebestyén Purpose Change management (CM) and project management (PM) literatures examine the key roles (change agent, project manager, project or change sponsor) played during projects or changes only from their respective points of view. They do so even in cases...