Research in organizational change and development. Vol. 15

• Other Authors: Woodman, Richard W., Pasmore, William A.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2005.
• Series: Research in organizational change and development,
• Subjects: Business & Economics > Organizational Behavior.; Psychology > Applied Psychology.; Organizational theory & behaviour.; Social, group or collective psychology.; Organizational change.

The chapters in volume 15 of ROCD address a wide array of topics, challenges, and gaps in our knowledge of organizational change. Purser, Bluedorn and Petranker explore the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of flow time. Falkenberg and her colleagues examine...

Table of Contents:

• The times of cause and flow in organizational change / Ronald E. Purser, Allen C. Bluedorn, Jack Petranker
• Creating new knowledge by crossing theory and practice boundaries / George L. Roth
• Transformative interactions : qualities of conversation that heighten the vitality of self-organizing change / Mary A. Ferdig, James D. Ludema
• Informing an apparent irony in OD applications : good fit of OD and Confucian work ethics / Robert T. Golembiewski, Jong-In Yoon, Seok-Eun Kim, Jung-Wook Lee
• Collaborative research across borders and boundaries : action research insights from the co-improve / David Coghlan, Paul Coughlan
• Assessment of the state of appreciative inquiry : past, present, and future / Therese F. Yaeger, Peter F. Sorensen, Ulf Bengtsson
• When change becomes excessive / Joyce Falkenberg, Inger G. Stensaker, Christine B. Meyer, Anne Cathrin Haueng
• Innovation implementation : conceptualization and measurement in organizational research / Kevin Real, Marshall Scott Poole.