Reading list
Leading Strategic Change
Ledning av organisatorisk förändring
Course
GM0839
Second cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)
About the Reading list
Valid from
Autumn semester 2025 (2025-09-01)
Decision date
2025-06-30
GM0839 Mandatory course literature and HSTalks
- Argote, L., Lee, S., & Park, J. (2021). Organizational learning processes and outcomes: Major findings and future research directions. Management science, 67(9), 5399-5429.
- Boonstra, J. (2023). Reflections: From planned change to playful transformations. Journal of Change Management, 23(1), 12-31.
- Bruskin, S. (2019). A drifting phenomenon: organizational change failure in a becoming view. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 32(6): 605-620.
- Chia, R. (2014) Reflections: In Praise of Silent Transformation – Allowing Change Through ‘Letting Happen’, Journal of Change Management, (14)1, 8-27.
- Dawson, P., & Buchanan, D. (2005). The way it really happened: Competing narratives in the political process of technological change. Human Relations, 58(7), 845-865.
- Diedrich, A., & Guzman, G. (2015). From implementation to appropriation: understanding knowledge management system development and introduction as a process of translation. Journal of Knowledge Management, 19(6), 1273-1294.
- Orlikowski, W. J., & D. J. Hofman (1997) An Improvisational Model for Change Management: The Case of Croupware Technologies. SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW/WlNTER 1997, 11-21.
- Schimmel, R., & Muntslag, D. R. (2009). Learning barriers: A framework for the examination of structural impediments to organizational change. Human Resource Management: Published in Cooperation with the School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan and in alliance with the Society of Human Resources Management, 48(3), 399-416.
- Thomas, R. & Hardy, C. (2011) Reframing resistance to organizational change, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 27, 322-331
- Xaba, L., Le Roux C. & A. Davis (2023) Migrating from disruption to consensus – middle manager experiences with organisational change. Journal of Contemporary Management, 20(1), pp. 376-403.
- HSTalk - Andrew Sturdy Consultancy’s consequences? A critical assessment of consultancy’s impact on management. https://hstalks-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/t/3083/consultancys-consequences-a-critical-assessment-of/?business
- HSTalk – Malcolm Higgs: Change and its leadership https://hstalks-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/t/1104/change-and-its-leadership/?business
- HSTalk - Miguel Pinha e Cunha and Joao Vieira da Cunha: Improvising improvisational change https://hstalks-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/t/1760/improvising-improvisational-change/?business
- HSTalk – Nick Wylie: Consultancy and change agency. https://hstalks-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/t/3110/consultancy-and-change-agency/?business
- HSTalk – Sue Newell: Knowledge and innovation https://hstalks-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/t/1970/knowledge-and-innovation/?business
Cases: see Canvas