...Linda du Plessis; Hong T.M. Bui Purpose Underpinned by institutional legitimacy, this study explores how South African public university senior managers struggled to maintain legitimacy during an unplanned radical change process. Design/methodology/approach Gioia's grounded theory analysis...

... diversity Social capital Ambidexterity Information processing Top management team Senior managers Team performance China Studies indicated that the second approach, contextual ambidexterity, focuses on utilizing behavioural and social means to balance exploration and exploitation. Relevant...

... the HRM function is perceived by senior managers to have contributed to the strategic organizational change agenda during a period of rapid change, and identify major challenges HRM professionals face as facilitators of strategic change management initiatives in contexts of this nature. Design...

...Marja Flory; Oriol Iglesias; Tomas Nilsson Purpose This paper explores strategic change communication, framed by the idea that managers can be viewed as rhetoricians. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss senior managers' subjective experiences of rhetorical aspects of change...

... in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a group of 20 Band 11 senior managers responsible for collecting tax and between them covering the UK in a business restructured into a large business group. The authors adopted a qualitative approach involving semi‐structured...