Making sense of organisational change failure: An identity lens

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Making sense of organisational change failure: An identity lens

© The Author(s) 2020. This study investigates how employees craft narratives of organisational change failure through the lens of their work identity. We analysed change recipients’ retrospective sensemaking accounts of an organisational re-structuring in a university, finding these accounts to...

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Main Authors:	Hay, Georgia, Parker, Sharon, Luksyte, A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2020
Subjects:	Social Sciences Management Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Social Sciences - Other Topics Change recipients failure identity identity threat narrative organisational change organisational structure sensemaking STRATEGIC CHANGE SOCIAL IDENTITY PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY SENSEMAKING WORK CONSEQUENCES MODEL CONSTRUCTION RESPONSES WAKE
Online Access:	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL160100033 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79821

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