...Niels Borch Rasmussen Purpose This paper examines how professional values develop through practice as professionals encounter organizational change. Most literature treats professional values as relatively stable structures that professionals defend against organizational demands. Drawing...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Organizational change New Ways of Working (NWoW) Legitimation processes Modernization projects Sociology of translation In recent years, several third-sector companies have claimed to modernize by implementing “New Ways of Working...

..., 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...

..., private and voluntary), via the medium of its LSP. In 2010, this locality formulated a new reform, Roadmap (Internshire County Council) (2011). Discourse Discourse theory organizational change Logics Local government Organizational politics Interview questions explored struggles...

...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...

... over time. The research design on which it is based, though fortuitous in nature, overcomes a number of the weaknesses of more conventional studies in this area. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 UK Organizational change Change management Public services Attitudes to change...

... experimenting shadowing as a means to understand aspects of social organization that are crucial and usually denied (not only by those in power) and to build trust among the all the participants. Action research Organizational change Shadowing Consensus Building I (and my students...

... care Organizational change Increasingly common in organizational contexts is the situation in which a plurality of actors are involved in change processes which, by calling work practices into question, alter previous arrangements and engender new ones. The latter approach requires instead...

... discipline of “audience studies” and social theory more broadly, offering a rich vein of material for further investigation using psychoanalytic techniques. Organizational change Organizational development Psychoanalysis Photography Audiencing Visual research The second aim of this paper...

... 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...

... empowerment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Qualitative methods Narratives Gender Organizational culture Organizational change This section introduces the design and implementation of the diary project and raises some discussion points from my practical experience. I...

...’ fondly on the past?”. Our aim is to build upon her argument and explore the stories of those involved in a major change process to understand how individuals draw upon the past in their struggles to make sense of ongoing organizational change and its perceived success. In sports organizations...

... and coordinating are not debunked form relevance. Rather, it is proposed that translation and managerial discourses are co‐implicated in complex investigations of participation practice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Organizational change Change management Employee participation Schools...