Change Management - 9781847879011

The editors (both affiliated with Open U. Business School, UK) present a four-volume set collecting 73 "well regarded, seminal" articles on the subject of change management, such as would be useful to academics and advanced students of business. By way of introduction the two opening sections are dedicated to the imperatives for organizational change that stem from globalization, the growth of technology, corporate social responsibility, and the environment, as well as early writings on change management from such writers as Elton May, Kurt Lewin, and Alfred P. Sloan. The remaining six sections correspond to key analytical categories of the field. They cover the human relations school and its development into the organizational development approach to incremental change management; the systems approach, arising out of the work of the Tavistock Institute in London, UK, and various thinkers approaching the topic from an engineering background; approaches to strategy, including planning and design, emergent strategies, structural adjustments, and core competencies; leadership, especially leadership as process; improvement and innovation in products, services, business models, and organizational forms; and critical approaches, including neo-Marxist, institutionalist, and post-modern approaches. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)