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Organizational development and change management: setting the record straight

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The authors argue that change management requires the incorporation of multiple stakeholder viewpoints to be successful, and that organizational development as a discipline can provide such a holistic approach, as it addresses individual, group and institutional analysis levels.

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Response to Farias and Johnson's commentary

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The authors argue that the organizational development model of change management emphasizes humanistic theories to the detriment of system-level theories, causing a lack of integration within the discipline.

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A technological frames perspective on information technology and organizational change

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Information technologies (IT) have a central role in organizational change programs, understanding how organization members make sense of technology is critical to influencing their actions and to achieving planned outcomes. Technological frames of reference theory focusing analysis on frame structure, investing framing as a dynamic interpretive process and examine the cultural and institutional basis of organizational frames is outlined.

Science & research, Information Systems & Theory, Usage, Information technology, Organizational behaviour

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