The limits of organisational change

"It's as if Somebody Slammed the Door" On the Limits of Organisational Change around Information Technology

This paper examines the notion of organizational change around information technology. In doing so, I take a position that focuses on negotiations between actors, negotiations that are translated into technological form. IT artifacts are interpretatively flexible, but while recognizing this, one needs to direct attention to how IT artifacts stabilizes, how peoples ideas about the technology rea...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Modelling the Organisation of Organisational Change

In a dynamic world organisations have to change often. To enable organisations to change, certain structures and capabilities are needed. As all processes, a change process has to be organised itself. In this paper it is shown how within a formal organisation modelling approach also organisation change processes can be modelled. A generic organisation model (covering both organisation structure...

Organisational Change: Deliberation and Modification

For an information-agent-based system to support virtual (Internet-supported) organisations, changes in environmental conditions often demand changes in organisational behaviour, i.e., organisational changes. As organisational behaviour relates to organisational structure, rethinking the structure of an organisation as environmental conditions demand so, renders such an organisation imperativel...

Musculoskeletal disorders and organisational change