Bibliography on Change Management

I recently assembled this list of current thinking on how to effect substantive change in any complex organization.

Battilana, J. & Casciaro, T. (2012). Change agents, networks, and institutions: A contingency theory of organizational change. Academy of Management Journal, 55(2), 381-398. doi: 10.5465/amj.2009.0891

Benjamin, R. I. & Levinson, E.  (1993, Summer).  A framework for managing IT-enabled change.  Sloan Management Review, 34(4).  23-33.  Retrieved from http://sloanreview.mit.edu/

By, R. T., Burnes, B., & Oswick, C.  (2011).  Change management:  The road ahead.  Journal of Change Management, 11(1), 1-6.  doi:  10.1080/14697017.2011.548936

Carr, A.  (2000).  Critical theory and the management of change in organizations.  Journal of Organizational change Management, 13(3).  208-220.  doi: 10.1108/09534810010330869

Carr, A. & Gabriel, Y.  (2001), The psychodynamics of organizational change management: An overview. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 14(5), 415-421.  doi: 10.1108/eum0000000005872

Cooney, R. & Sewell, G. (2008). Shaping the other:  Maintaining expert managerial status in a complex change management program.  Group & Organization Management, 33(6), 685-711.  doi: 10.1177/1059601108325699

Eisenbach, R., Watson, K., & Pillai, R. (1999). Transformational leadership in the context of organizational change.  Journal of Organizational Change Management, 12(2), 80-89.  doi: 10.1108/09534819910263631

Farais, G. & Johnson, H.  (2000).  Organizational development and change management: Setting the record straight.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 36, 376-379. doi: 10.1177/0021886300363007

Ford, M. W., & Evans, J. R. (2001). Baldrige assessment and Organizational learning:  The need for change management.  Quality Management Journal, 8(3), 9-25. doi: 10.1.1.196.2221

Gans, K. (2011, October). Should you change your thinking about change management? Strategic Finance, 48-50.   Retrieved from http://www.imanet.org/ resources_and_publications/strategic_finance_magazine/issues/ October_2011.aspx

Geppert, M., Matten, D., & Williams, K.  (2003).  Change management in MNCs:  How global convergence intertwines with national diversities.  Human Relations, 56(807), 807-838.  doi:  10.1177/00187267030567003

Gotsill, G. & Natchez, M.  (2007, November).  From resistance to acceptance:  How to implement change management.  T+D, 61(11), 24-27.  Retrieved from http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD

Griffith-Cooper, B. & King, K.  (2007, January).  The partnership between project management and organizational change:  Integrating change management with change leadership.  Performance Improvement, 46(1), 14-20. doi:  10.1002/pfi.034

Jorgensen, H. H., Owen, L., & Neus, A.  (2009).  Stop improvising change management.  Strategy & Leadership, 37(2), 38-44.  doi: 10.1108/10878570910941217

Karp, T. & Helgo, T. I. T. (2007). Reality revisited:  Leading people in chaotic change.  Journal of Management Development, 28(2), 81-93. doi: 10.1108/02621710910932052

Merell, P.  (2012, Summer).  Effective change management:  The simple truth.  Management Services, 20-23.  Retrieved from http://www.ism.ws/

Muayyad, J. (2004).  Team feedback based on dialogue:  Implications for change management.  The Journal of Management Development, 23(2), 141-151.  doi:  10.1108/02621710410517238

Newman, J. (2012). An organizational change management framework for sustainability.  Greener Management International, 57, 65-75.

Ragsdell, G. (2000). Engineering a paradigm shift?: An holistic approach to organizational change management. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 13(2), 104-120. doi: 10.1108/09534810010321436

Saka, A. (2003). Internal change agents' view of the management of change problem. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 16(5), 480-496.  doi:  10.1108/09534810310494892

Shanley, C. (2007). Managing change through management development:  An industry case study.  Journal of Management Development, 26(10), 962-979.  doi:  10.1108/02621710710833414

Siegal, W., Church, A. H., Javitch, M., Waclawski, J., Burd, S., Bazigos, M., Yang, T. F.,

Anderson-Rudolph, K., & Burke, W. W. (1996). Understanding the management of change: An overview of managers' perspectives and assumptions in the 1990s.  Journal of Organizational Change Management, 9(6), 54-80.  doi: 10.1108/09534819610150521

Sirkin, H. L., Keenan, P., & Jackson, A.  (2005, October).  The hard side of change management.  Harvard Business Review, 33-48.  Retrieved from http://www.hbr.org/

Stanleigh, M. (2008). Effecting successful change management initiatives. Industrial and Commercial Training, 40(1), 34-37.  doi: 10.1108/00197850810841620

Sturdy, A. & Grey, C.  (2003).  Beneath and beyond organizational change management:  Exploring alternatives.  Organization, 10(4), 651-662.  doi:  10.1177/13505084030104006

van de Ven & Poole, M. S.  (1995), Explaining development and change in organizations.  The Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 510-540.  doi: 10.2307/258786

Varkey, P. & Antonio, K. (2010). Change management for effective quality improvement:  A primer.  American Journal of Medical Quality, 25(4), 268-273. doi: 10.1177/1062860610361625

Waddell, D. & Sohal, A. S.  (1998).  Resistance: a constructive tool for change management.  Management Decision, 36(8), 543-548.  doi:  10.1108/00251749810232628

Worren, N. A. M., Ruddle, K., & Moore, K. (1999). Form organizational development to change management: The emergence of a new profession.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 35(3), 273-286. doi: 10.1177/0021886399353002

The Use of Wikipedia for Scholarly Resource

It’s incumbent upon any responsible research writer to not blindly accept a secondary source’s citations and references.  Even a newspaper reporter corroborates a story from at least two sources before going-to-print.  Some amount of quality assurance audit is to be expected as a researcher assembles a paper and cite sources.  (This could take the form of systematized random sampling, or checking the references from any suspect or lesser-known sources.)  This act of validation should be the gateway to the responsible use of Wikipedia as a reference-ready source.

That said, some influence upon Wikipedia to acknowledge the gap between what is widely-accepted as scholarly work and what is in the commonly-contributed content on their website could be addressed by a small designation on their articles denoting the ones that have earned a scholarly rating.  Authors of articles that posit that their work meets general academic standards could affix an icon (such as a diploma or mortar board or blue ribbon) to the article, giving researchers an added level of confidence that the article meets an higher standard.

Nonetheless, it is up to the research writer to know their sources and know their citations.  Added work, but no one ever said that research writing has to be made easier!

Ethics in Research

Hatcher, T. (2011).  Becoming an Ethical Scholarly Writer.  Journal of Scholarly Writing, 142-159. doi: 10.3138/jsp.42.2.142

Hatcher changed my view of writing ethics.  Whereas I earlier embraced the notion of a codified list of ‘dos and don’ts,’ I came to appreciate the evolving differences and diversity of opinions on what is and is not acceptable behavior in writing.  An ethical guideline may keep those that are ethical in-line, but it is a means for the unethical to find rules to circumnavigate the written rules.   The self-regulatory approach, as he calls it, does have merit because it is self-policing and kept current by a population of peers.

A few interesting points he surfaces—

- There is a dearth of writing on ethical behavior in research today

- Existing ethical codes are too western and too masculine; They are biased

- Key ethical dilemmas include plagiarism, confidentiality, and trust and conflicts of interest

The key is that individuals create their own moral identity, influenced by their peers, and kept current by the evolution and changes in their environment.  Ethics, therefore, is dynamic and varied, not static.