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Book SynopsisHighlights include a reflection on forty years of collaboration and provides an inside perspective on collegial partnerships; the first recipients of the Pasmore-Woodman Award (AOM 2015) consider personal recollections as well as general principles about successful academic partnerships; one of the first women in the field provides a perspective on the interdependence of research and practice through a gender lens; while reflecting on the role of women in ODC across a fifty-year time period; strategies for managing changes in the research question when conducting field-based action research advances our understanding of evidence-based practice through the application of theory; Dialogic OD, a relatively new perspective in the field, is explored by discussing a case in which ‘social space’ serves as ‘transitional space’ and the ODC practitioner is provided a theoretically informed set of principles that can be applied and evaluated across contexts; the nature and role of organization identity shades new insights about the potential impact of organization development work on company culture and effectiveness; the challenges of integrating business strategy and organization development in the fast changing newspaper industry.
Trade ReviewResearchers from North America, Europe, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates provide eight essays on topics in organizational change and development: collaboration, gender and organization development consultation, changing the research question in a study, the Perception of Change Strategy Scale, social space in dialogic organization development, the role of organization identity in organization change, integrating business strategy with organization development and change perspectives in technology transitions, and turnaround strategies following bankruptcy. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsWorking Together Revisited - Bob Hinings and Royston Greenwood Reflections on Gender and Organization Development Consultation - Barbara Benedict Bunker I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: When Research Questions Ought to Change - Robert Macintosh, Jean M. Bartunek, Mamta Bhatt and Donald Maclean The Perception of Change Strategy Scale: Validating the Measure - David B. Szabla, William Dardick and Jennifer A. Devlin Social Space as a Generative Image for Dialogic Organization Development - Victor J. Friedman, Israel Sykes, Noam Lapidot-Lefler and Noha Haj Organization Identity: Its Role in Organization Change - Shannon Brown, Michael R. Manning and James D. Ludema Transformation in a Tightly Nested System: Employing Fast Cycles of Change - Tobias Fredberg and Johanna Pregmark To Bankruptcy and Back: Turnaround Strategies for Firm Emergence, Long-Term Survival, and Speed - Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi and Yehia Kamel
