Organizational Change Books

New and Published Books

1. The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

   A Study of Medicalizing Management

   By Mikael Holmqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Narrating the Management Guru

   In Search of Tom Peters

   By David Collins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   David Collins, a well respected scholar of management gurus proves a critical reappraisal of the very influential work of Tom Peters. This volume examines his key works and reviews his detractors, offering an analysis of his contributions to the field of management that goes beyond the simple...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change

   Edited by David Boje, Bernard Burnes, John Hassard

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools. The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Why Organizational Change Fails

   Robustness, Tenacity, and Change in Organizations

   By Leike van Oss, Jaap van 't Hek

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Change in organizations can arise spontaneously, or it can begin in response to a planned process of change. Even planned change is not as predictable as one might like it to be; it is often partial or incomplete, or the results of change may not be what one hoped. The aspects of an organization...

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
5. Organizational Transformation for Sustainability

   An Integral Metatheory

   By Mark Edwards

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   During the 21st century organizations will undergo a level of radical and global change that has rarely been seen before. This transformation will come as a result of the environmental, social and economic challenges that now confront organisations in all their activities. But are our...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Developing Change Leaders

   By Paul Aitken, Malcolm Higgs

   Implementing change is a major business challenge. Is your leadership up to the task? With change initiatives failing so frequently despite many books on the market addressing separately the topics of leadership and change management, Developing Change Leaders tackles in one concise volume the...

   Published September 15th 2009 by Routledge
7. Managing Organizational Change in Public Services

   International Issues, Challenges and Cases

   Edited by Rune Todnem By, Calum Macleod

   Series: Understanding Organizational Change

   Forming part of the Understanding Organizational Change series, Managing Organizational Change in Public Services focuses on the organizational dimension of change management in public services. Combining aspects of change management theory with ‘real life’ practice in the form of...

   Published March 12th 2009 by Routledge
8. Market-Led Strategic Change

   4th Edition

   By Nigel Piercy

   The fourth edition of the best seller, Market-Led Strategic Change, confronts the real issues companies face in going to market effectively and profitably, including: * corporate social responsibility * marketing under siege * dominant customers and much else besides.In his witty and direct style,...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
9. Understanding Organizational Change

   By Jean Helms-Mills, Kelly Dye, Albert J Mills

   This exciting new text fills the gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view, which raises questions about the imperative of change, who’s interests are being served, how change programmes impact on employees and why organizations continually...

   Published September 4th 2008 by Routledge
10. Change, Conflict and Community

    By Barbara Kenton, Suzanne Penn

    The cost to business of unresolved conflicts is high; tribunals, loss of productivity, resignations and damaged reputations are serious consequences for all concerned. With increased organizational change in the form of changes in leadership, restructuring, downsizing, matrix management, mergers,...

    Published August 13th 2008 by Routledge