... 03 2019 08 05 2019 25 06 2019 25 06 2019 Organizational change New Ways of Working (NWoW) Legitimation processes Modernization projects Sociology of translation While data from Round 1 allowed to document the work accomplished by the project teams, it remained...

..., grassroots approach to creating actionable solutions that brings about positive organizational change and can be replicated by others. Design/methodology/approach The version of an organizational cultural audit described here included two phases. The first was quantitative in nature, using a survey...

... for an exploration of discursive concepts such as hegemony, empty signifier and a logics method, to produce in-depth critical findings. Discourse Discourse theory organizational change Logics Local government Organizational politics Second, when adopting a discourse theory approach, the researcher...

...Fay Giæver; Roy K. Smollan Purpose – There is a lack of qualitative longitudinal studies in the literature exploring the complexity and dynamism of affective experience during phases of organizational change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and intensity of emotional reactions...

...” approach to the study of organizational change. In the introduction to a recent special issue of Academy of Management Journal, Langley et al. (2013) refer to the “centrality of time” in process research. A closer examination of this kind of approach, however, reveals a number...

... and to translate them into organizational change. Shadowing is a strange, ambiguous approach, which hovers between literature and action research and that, in my view, should capture the best of the two. In the experience told above, a description from the workers’ perspective of what “safety” is about...

... Organizational knowledge Writing At‐home ethnography Auto‐ethnography Transformative learning Health care Organizational change A qualitative approach is particularly suited to analysis of the knowledge production processes generated by the real problems that people encounter in their work...

..., acceptance of information technology, emotional aspects of organizational change and business process reengineering, respectively. Jonathan Schroeder's (2002) pioneering work on visual branding and the “strategic work” that images do for organizations as they are produced, circulate and consumed...

... around, on the surface, similar organizational changes. The findings illustrate how differential institutional orders are maintained by middle managers and frontline staff despite exposure to the same demands. Research limitations/implications There are different limitations to this ethnographic...

... strengths of qualitative research methods that allowed a deeper understanding of these change processes. Originality/value The paper's findings add to our knowledge on the complex relations between externally imposed organizational change and the nature of internal organizational behaviour when...

... Organizational change The aim of this paper is to share my experience of using qualitative diaries and dialogue for the purpose of researching gender, power and change in organisations. Used as part of a wider ethnographic organisational case‐study which examines questions about how change happens, who...

... demonstrates that the past can serve as both an immobilizing force, as well as a comparative point enabling individuals to rationalize their emotions. Helms Mills (2003) notes that the number of written pieces concerned with organizational change has increased substantially since the 1970s. Thousands...

... for inquiry. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Organizational change Change management Employee participation Schools Australia This research approach has been motivated by a concern with the complexity of participation, including, but not restricted to, notions of uncertainty...