Artikel

Understanding radical change: An examination of management departments in German-speaking universities

Can radical organizational change be better achieved through planned change measures or through change measures developed as part of an evolutionary process? Based on 20 open interviews as well as recent survey data from 236 junior faculty members and 382 senior faculty members from departments of management at German universities and other academic institutions, this study suggests that the value commitment of the relevant stakeholders is greater to evolutionarily-developed rather than planned change measures, which consequently results in the dominant influence of the evolutionary change measures. Our results support the notion that in contexts that resemble the situation of universities in Germany - namely multi-polar power distribution and demanding preference structures within the affected group - successful radical organizational change management necessitates that the organization develops suitable change measures in an evolutionary way in order to achieve its goals.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Management Revue ; ISSN: 1861-9916 ; Volume: 21 ; Year: 2010 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 111-134 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Klassifikation
Management
Thema
organizational change
intra-organizational change
institutional change
planned change
evolutionary change

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fiedler, Marina
Welpe, Isabell
Picot, Arnold
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rainer Hampp Verlag
(wo)
Mering
(wann)
2010

DOI
doi:10.1688/1861-9908_mrev_2010_02_Fiedler
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Fiedler, Marina
  • Welpe, Isabell
  • Picot, Arnold
  • Rainer Hampp Verlag

Entstanden

  • 2010

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