Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

Top management team diversity and strategic change: The moderating effects of pay imparity and organization slack

Yong Wu, Zelong Wei, Qiaozhuan Liang

The purpose of this paper is to describe the building of a theoretical model to explore how team pay disparity and resource slack moderate the effects of top management team (TMT…

Does transactional leadership count for team innovativeness?: The moderating role of emotional labor and the mediating role of team efficacy

Jun Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Xianju Zeng

Drawing on the contingency perspective of leadership, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between transactional leadership and team innovativeness by focusing on…

Charismatic leadership and self‐leadership: A relationship of substitution or supplementation in the contexts of internalization and identification?

Anyi Chung, I‐Heng Chen, Amber Yun‐Ping Lee, Hsien Chun Chen, Yingtzu Lin

The purpose of this paper is to propose that self‐leadership has a complementary relationship with charismatic leadership, thus not substituting for the influence of charismatic…

Bottom‐up learning, organizational formalization, and ambidextrous innovation

Zelong Wei, Yaqun Yi, Changhong Yuan

The purpose of this paper is to address the conflicting views on the role of bottom‐up learning; this research combines the information‐processing and organizational inertia views…

Guest editorial

Carole Groleau, Christiane Demers, Yrjö Engeström

The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special themed section which explores the relationship between contradiction and organizational change.

Having your cake and eating it too: Discourses of transcendence and their role in organizational change dynamics

Chahrazad Abdallah, Jean‐Louis Denis, Ann Langley

Previous work on paradox and contradiction has argued for management approaches that transcend dilemmas through a kind of creative synthesis. The purpose of this paper is to…

Managing organizational change: paradoxical problems, solutions, and consequences

Kimberly Stoltzfus, Cynthia Stohl, David R. Seibold

The purpose of this paper is to examine how paradox emerges during a planned change initiative to improve and dramatically transform inter‐agency information sharing. Based on…

Discursive manifestations of contradictions in organizational change efforts: A methodological framework

Yrjö Engeström, Annalisa Sannino

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new methodological framework for the identification and analysis of different types of discursive manifestations of contradictions.

Caught between a rock and a hard place: From individually experienced double binds to collaborative change in surgery

Hannele Kerosuo

The purpose of this paper is to research a critical transition from individually‐experienced double binds to collaborative change. To this end an early phase of a change process…

New Asian Emperors: The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese

Mark J. Greeven

Brief introduction of four papers about flexibility bottom up

Yong Wu, Youmin Xi, Qiaozhuan Liang