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Stensaker, Inger G., Balogun, Julia and Langley, Ann (2021) The power of the platform : place and employee responses to organizational change. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57 (2). pp. 174-203. doi:10.1177/0021886320933736 ISSN 0021-8863.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886320933736
Abstract
This inductive study explores how place influences collective sensemaking and employee responses during organizational change. The empirical setting of our study is an offshore oil platform undergoing changes that involve standardizing operational practices and relocating personnel as two organizations merge. We analyze the narratives of two employee groups and show how employees located onshore construct progressive change narratives, enabling them to adapt to change, while employees located on the offshore oil platform construct regressive narratives leaving them romanticizing the past and struggling to accept change. Our findings illustrate how the manipulation, reconfiguration, and exploitation of place has implications for employees’ capacities to accept and adapt to change.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science | ||||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
ISSN: | 0021-8863 | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 57 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 174-203 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0021886320933736 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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