- The Oxford Handbook of Management
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Theoretical Overview: Management—Past, Present, and Future
- Scientific Management
- Human Relations
- Operations Management
- Peter F. Drucker’s Management by Objectives and Self-Control
- Studying Culture in Organizations: Not Taking for Granted the Taken-for-Granted
- The Opening Up of Organization Theory: Open Systems, Contingency Theory, and Organizational Design
- Future in the Past: A Philosophical Reflection on the Prospects of Management
- Managing People: Understanding the Theory and Practice of Human Resources Management
- Managing Operations
- Managing Projects
- Managing Data, Information, and Knowledge
- Managing Meaning—Culture
- Management and Leadership
- Fragmentation in Strategic Management: Process and Agency Issues
- Management Practice—and the Doing of Management
- Managing Change
- Management as a Practice of Power
- Management and Morality/Ethics—The Elusive Corporate Morals
- Management and Modernity
- Evidence-Based Management
- Management Education in Business Schools
- Management as an Academic Discipline?
- Culture, Context, and Managerial Behaviour
- International Management
- Management and Consultancy: Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
There is no shortage of advice on the subject, but the management of change is widely regarded as problematic, and the failure rate seems to be high. This chapter assesses the value of practical change guidelines, and of contingency and processual perspectives, reviews debates concerning the pace of change—should we accelerate or slow down (the acceleration trap)—and explores the roles and capabilities of change leaders, including the need for political skill. Suggestions for further research in this area concern understanding change in different economic conditions (growth, recession), exploring different modes of transformational change, helping to develop continuous change capability, exploring path dependent explanations of change processes, and tracing the fate of post-crisis recommendations for change, which are rarely implemented.
Keywords: change management, change leaders, transformational change. contingency perspectives, processual perspectives, the acceleration trap, path dependence
Professor of Organisational Behaviour, School of Management, Cranfield University
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- The Oxford Handbook of Management
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Theoretical Overview: Management—Past, Present, and Future
- Scientific Management
- Human Relations
- Operations Management
- Peter F. Drucker’s Management by Objectives and Self-Control
- Studying Culture in Organizations: Not Taking for Granted the Taken-for-Granted
- The Opening Up of Organization Theory: Open Systems, Contingency Theory, and Organizational Design
- Future in the Past: A Philosophical Reflection on the Prospects of Management
- Managing People: Understanding the Theory and Practice of Human Resources Management
- Managing Operations
- Managing Projects
- Managing Data, Information, and Knowledge
- Managing Meaning—Culture
- Management and Leadership
- Fragmentation in Strategic Management: Process and Agency Issues
- Management Practice—and the Doing of Management
- Managing Change
- Management as a Practice of Power
- Management and Morality/Ethics—The Elusive Corporate Morals
- Management and Modernity
- Evidence-Based Management
- Management Education in Business Schools
- Management as an Academic Discipline?
- Culture, Context, and Managerial Behaviour
- International Management
- Management and Consultancy: Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change
- Author Index
- Subject Index
