Czarniawska, Barbara : Organizational Change – Fashions, Institutions, and Translations
Corvellec, Hervé LU
and Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla
(2021)
1-2.
p.467-484
- Abstract
Combining neo-institutionalism, actor network theory, and Gabriel Tarde’s sociology, Czarniawska considers the key driver of organizational change to be imitation but an imitation that rests on translation. Organizations emulate one another by translating fashionable ideas according to their understanding, traditions, needs, and means. As translation in this tradition always entails a transformation of the translated idea or object, unexpected consequences will be expected. She does not consider these consequences to be necessarily negative; however, because if stabilized and institutionalized, unintended change can turn out to be as positive as planned change. A further strength of Czarniawska’s is her ability to provide methodological... (More)
Combining neo-institutionalism, actor network theory, and Gabriel Tarde’s sociology, Czarniawska considers the key driver of organizational change to be imitation but an imitation that rests on translation. Organizations emulate one another by translating fashionable ideas according to their understanding, traditions, needs, and means. As translation in this tradition always entails a transformation of the translated idea or object, unexpected consequences will be expected. She does not consider these consequences to be necessarily negative; however, because if stabilized and institutionalized, unintended change can turn out to be as positive as planned change. A further strength of Czarniawska’s is her ability to provide methodological tools that follow the translation processes for change: organizational ethnographies, narrative methodology, and shadowing.
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- author
- Corvellec, Hervé
LU
and Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Action net, Ethnography, Fashion, Imitation, Institutionalism, Narrative, Shadowing, Translation
- host publication
- The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers
- volume
- 1-2
- edition
- Second Edition
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85160751535
- ISBN
- 9783030383237
- 9783030383244
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_72
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017, corrected publication 2018 and Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. All rights are reserved.
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- 9071a09d-c209-4877-a1ae-4540d4c149ab
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- 2023-06-16 18:17:30
- date last changed
- 2024-04-19 22:57:00
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