3rd Edition

Changing Organizational Culture Cultural Change Work in Progress

By Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson Copyright 2025
228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountered? In a turbulent and changing world, organizational culture is often seen as central for sustained competitiveness. Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle... Read more

PART 1 Perspectives on organizational and cultural change  1) Introduction  2) Organizational change  3) Organizational culture and change  PART 2 Change work in practice–a close-up study  4) The case–and how we studied it  5) A cultural change project I: background, objectives and design  6) A cultural change project II: implementation, reception and outcomes  PART 3 Crucial issues in cultural change work  7) ‘It is not so damn easy’: lack of consistency and expressiveness in cultural change work  8) Disconnected work: cultural change efforts decoupled  9) Hyperculture  PART 4 Getting into the substance of organizational change work  10) Working with culture vs culture working on change workers  11) Working with change  12) Lessons for cultural change actors and others  Bibliography

Biography

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at University of Bath, UK and Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.

Stefan Sveningsson is Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.