Developing Strategies for Change

PART I: ISSUES IN STRATEGY AND CHANGE 1. Introduction. 2. The Rationalist Approach to Strategy and Change. 3. Culture and Change Management: Essential Debate or Essentially a Digression? 4. Mindsets. 5. The Individual and the Organization in Times of Change. 6. The Management of Power in Strategy and Change. PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO CHANGE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THEORY 7. Critical Theory and Constructivism. 8. Implications of Postmodernism for Strategy and Change. 9. Complexity and Change. PART III: LINKING CHANGE TO CURRENT THEMES 10. Change and New Organisational Forms. 11. Change, Ethics and Ecology: The Moral Dimension. PART IV: HOW DOES IT ALL HAPPEN? 12. Choices in Change. 13. Change Through the Strategic Recipe and Change Through Understanding. 14. Action Research and Whole Systems Interventions: Two Change Methodologies with Promise. 15. Conclusions. 16. New Directions in Strategy and Change.