| Agency and Change: Rethinking Change Agency in Organizations Contributor(s): Caldwell, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415326761 ISBN-13: 9780415326766 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: This third title in our "Understanding Organizational Change" series offers readers a selective, critical and synthetic historical review of the main literature and empirical research on change agency. In doing so it helps students to contextualise this complex subject area while providing an interdisciplinary review of the subject. The book takes a controversial approach designed to both heighten student criticality and challenge practitioners. The aim is that having read this book, readers will be able to evaluate independently the future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations. A much-needed review of a fascinating area of organizational change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Negotiating - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior |
| Dewey: 302.35 |
| LCCN: 2005003139 |
| Series: Understanding Organizational Change |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.44" W x 9.44" (0.95 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty. |