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Organizational change research has concentrated on the challenges of implementing isolated changes, paying little attention to the interactions among concurrent change initiatives. Our longitudinal...

Prior research has emphasized how leaders use charismatic communication to motivate employee support for organizational change. But beyond inspirational visions, employees also pay attention to whe...

Change implementation interventions (CIIs), i.e., systematic activities aimed at facilitating successful organizational change, are of high relevance for change research and practice. Scholars from...

Organizational change research lacks multilevel investigations about how dialogical communication activities affect employees’ experiences of and emotional reactions toward change. We use two-wave ...

Change research has concentrated on the implementation of isolated changes and paid little attention to dynamics between concurrent change projects. Our longitudinal real-time study of a multinatio...

This paper provides insights in the previously under researched phenomena of cross-level strategizing using processual qualitative data collected throughout the implementation of a new strategy ini...

One of the urgent questions in micro change research is how to better understand shifts in peoples’ responses to change over time. Grounded in dual process theories of cognition, sensemaking research, and dialogical communication, we conceptualize occasions for sensemaking (OfS) as interventions facilitating shifts towards supportive responses. OfS are characterized by the initiation of (a) active cognitive processing, (b) interpersonal communication, and (c) conversations of understanding and performance. Based on two-wave data (N=145) comparing a treatment and control group, we tested OfS in a quasi- field experiment during a planned change in a technology firm. Latent-change score analysis showed that participating in OfS corresponds to a positive shift in perceived progress and intentions of change support, but not in pleasant affect towards the change. Further, we identify perceived meaning and impact of the change as two pathways explaining the effects of OfS. Our study contributes to the literature...

This qualitative study takes advantage of a naturally occurring incident by exploring how the introduction of a major change initiative is undermined by another change introduced one year later. Co...

The five papers in this symposium advance our understanding of organizational change by exploring various aspects including (1) change leadership behaviors (i.e., sensegiving, role modeling, and ex...

The phenomena of meaningful work raised increasing attention in management research during recent years as evidence shows that it is linked to a variety of valuable outcomes. Scholars proposed othe...