It is often claimed that 50–90% of strategic initiatives fail. Although these claims have had a
significant impact on management theory and practice, they are controversial. We aim to …

Have you ever wondered why even large companies fail when faced with changes in their
environment? Would you be surprised to learn that the average life expectancy of a Fortune …

Understanding both leadership and change have been recurrent and popular themes within
the business, management and organization studies literature. However, our understanding …

This paper argues that there is a powerful tendency in forecasting of socio-technical change
to focus on the causes and consequences of change at the cost of greater understanding of …

It is well known that managed change within an organisation can result in unpredictable
outcomes. In this paper a sensemaking framework is developed to demonstrate how both …

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Professor John claimed in Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail to have identified
eight leadership errors which resulted in transformation failures. He followed this up in 1996 …

This paper develops an inventory and conceptual map of espoused organizational values.
We suggest that espoused values are fundamentally different to other value forms as they …

While seminal work on dynamic capabilities highlights path-dependent trajectories as an
important and distinguishing property, recent studies tend to marginalize this feature in favor …

Despite the growing awareness of the importance of researching core strategic resources
and capabilities for supporting organisational change, the work that has been done to the …