A new taxonomy for examining the multi-role of campus sustainability assessments in organizational change

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 1763-1774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

scholarly journals Storytelling and `Character': Victims, Villains and Heroes in a Case of Technological Change

Organization ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Whittle ◽  
Frank Mueller ◽  
Anita Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
The Self ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Face Saving ◽  
Positive Light

In this article we examine the role of stories in the temporal development of images of the self at work. Drawing on an in-depth case study of technological change in a UK public-private partnership, we highlight the role of stories in the construction, maintenance and defence of actors' moral status and organizational reputation. The analysis focuses on the development of one `character' as he shifted from the role of innocent victim to implied villain to heroic survivor within the stories constructed during routine work conversations. We argue that stories are intimately linked to the forms of `moral accounting' that serve to deal with the challenges to `face' and social positioning that accompany `failed' organizational change. Stories, we suggest, are likely to be invoked when an interactional encounter threatens the participants' sense of social worth. Stories in which we present ourselves in a positive light—for instance as virtuous, honourable, courageous, caring, committed, competent— comprise a key component of face-saving strategies designed to maintain our social positioning: processes that are often intensified during periods of organizational change.

Strategic organizational change: the role of leadership, learning, motivation and productivity

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven H. Appelbaum ◽  
Normand St‐Pierre ◽  
William Glavas
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Learning Motivation

Organizational change in stakeholder business systems: the role of institutions

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Cheng ◽  
Carla C.J.M. Millar ◽  
Chong Ju Choi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Business Systems

scholarly journals Modernizing the flow of blood: Biomedical technicians, working knowledge and the transformation of Swedish blood centre practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boel Berner ◽  
Maria Björkman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Instruments And Techniques ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Donated Blood ◽  
New Procedures

The early 1980s saw a ‘paradigm change’ in how donated blood was handled and used by blood centres, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. In Sweden, a five-year state-financed R&D programme initiated a swift modernization process, an alleged ‘revolution’ of existing blood centre practices. In this article, we use interviews and archival material to analyse the role of female biomedical technicians in this rapid technical and organizational change. In focus is their working knowledge, or savoir-faire, of blood, instruments and techniques. We give a detailed analysis of technicians’ embrained and embodied skills to create safety in blood and its representations, handle contingencies and invent new procedures and techniques. These transformations are analysed as sociomaterial entanglements, where the doing and undoing of gender, sociomaterial practices, hierarchies of authority and expertise, and emotions are intertwined.

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