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Agency and Change

Rethinking Change Agency in Organizations

Raymond Caldwell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:17th Nov '05

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This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations

Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change.

Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty.

'Agency and Change remains an important critical analysis of organizational change theory as it faces up to new, complex organizational realities.' - Robert Wapshott for Work, Employment and Society

ISBN: 9780415326773

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 370g

192 pages