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This milestone Handbook brings together an impressive collection of international contributions on micro research in Organizational Behavior. Focusing on core micro Organizational Behavior issues, chapters cover key themes such as individual and group behaviour. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volumes I provides students and scholars with an insightful and wide reaching survey of the current state of the field and is an indespensible road map to the subject area. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volume II will publish in November 2008. Edited by Stewart R Clegg and Cary L Cooper this Handbook draws together contributions from leading macro Organizational Behavior scholars.
Organizational Change
Organizational Change
Organizational change is a topic of concern for many organizational scientists, and has been recognized as ‘one of the great themes in the social sciences’ (Pettigrew et al., 2001: 697). Diverse disciplines and theoretical models have been drawn on to explain change, development, and transformation in organizations, including strategy, economics, international business, organizational theory, psychology, and sociology, to name but a few. Indeed, one of the difficulties when reviewing the organizational change field is the sheer amount of material with which one is confronted. This diversity of perspectives and approaches has contributed to disagreements regarding the meaning of organizational change and how to study it.
We begin this review by examining the history of the change field. First, we examine several classic studies ...
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