Facilitating transformational change
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The authors offer a way to fashion radical change that is called for in an organizational transformation. In this approach, they show how a vision is required to trigger radical change and how to identify and deal with obstacles blocking the vision that limit the prospect of realizing a transformation. Issue tensions are sued to reveal these obstacles. The authors use issue tensions to find win-win actions and show how complementary actions that make up a strategic circle of change provide a vehicle to realize a transformation. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1997
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Organization development in the entrepreneurial firm
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Theories and methods in the field of organization development have historically been based on the experience of researchers and practitioners studying and consulting with large organizations. However, the vast majority of firms in the world today are small, entrepreneurial ventures. Thus the purpose of this article is to articulate an alternative framework for diagnosis and intervention in these kinds of organizations. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1997
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Revitalizing stagnated policy processes using the configuration approach for research and interventions
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The result of an action research that was conducted with civil servants of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is presented. It shows that the research itself proves to be an intervention in its own right that contributes to revitalizing the stagnated processes.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2007
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