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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Research has overlooked the need for modern organisations to enact continuity during periods of change. This Research Agenda addresses this by considering continuity and change as engaging in various forms of mutual interplay. The underlying theme of this book is that change needs continuity just as continuity needs change.
In this Research Agenda, internationally renowned contributors offer insights through a wide range of case studies and chart a path for future research. Readers will discover how the continuity-change interplay unfolds in a variety of organisational types and industries. Key examples show the importance of understanding continuity as an integrative part of organisational change at various levels of organisation.
A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change will be useful for scholars and students of organisation and management, including teachers involved in executive education.
Trade Review‘This volume provides a cutting edge treatment of both sides of organizational temporality: continuity and change. It does so not by a reductionist analysis emphasizing one or the other side, but by considering the many types of relationships between the two. The book’s twelve chapters explore how continuity and change relate to one another in a yin-yang like relationship and posit several different “takes” on this relationship. Scholars of organizational change and development will find bright new perspectives and insightful critiques in this volume, and I highly recommend it to both beginning and experienced scholars of this subject.’ -- Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
‘A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change
is a timely and exciting addition to long-standing inquiries into organizational continuity and change. Grounded in an integrative conceptualization, the multiple chapters provide innovative alternatives to more conventional treatments of these processes as sequential, parallel, or opposed. Offering insightful considerations of the relationality, temporality, and performativity of continuity and change, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to engage with the lively, fluid, and entangled realities of contemporary organizing.’ -- Wanda J. Orlikowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: suggestions for a framework of organizational continuity and change 1 Miriam Feuls and Tor Hernes 2 Integrating the missing link of episodic continuity into change theorizing 23 Majken Schultz and Tor Hernes 3 Complex and dynamic complementarities of continuity and change revealed in outsourcing and backsourcing 45 Kätlin Pulk 4 Notes on continuity and change during innovation 65 Raghu Garud and Jacob A. Klopp 5 New ways of working or not? Transcending the continuity versus change conundrum through boundary events 87 Anthony Hussenot and Jeremy Aroles 6 The communicative constitution of organizational continuity and change in, through and over time 103 Mie Plotnikof and Nicolas Bencherki 7 Imaginary practices as the nexus between continuity and disruptive change 125 Iben Sandal Stjerne, Anders Buch and Matthias Wenzel 8 Narrative habitus: how actors connect episodic and continuous change in the moment 145 Henrik Koll and Astrid Jensen 9 Towards a nuanced explanation of historically conditioned continuity: interdependent action patterns as enacted history 165 Blagoy Blagoev and Waldemar Kremser 10 Re-embracing a rejected past in the flow of time: the shifting roles of nostalgia and nostophobia 183 Are Branstad and Ansgar Ødegård 11 The role of organisational narrative in continuity and change of organisations 205 Frans Bévort 12 Approaches to studying continuity and change 223 Ann Langley Index
