Uncovering relationships and shared emotion beneath senior managers’ resistance to strategic change

Balogun, Julia and Bartunek, Jean and Do, Boram (2010) Uncovering relationships and shared emotion beneath senior managers’ resistance to strategic change. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. pp. 1-6. ISSN 2151-6561

Abstract

Many approaches to organizational change assume that change recipients will resist and that this resistance is illegitimate and unfounded, as "right" sits with those initiating change. Working with data on senior managers, we challenge these assumptions developing a model that has implications for understanding of change and change agent practice.