Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change

Edited by Tor Hernes and Miriam Feuls, Centre for Organization and Time, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents:1 Introduction: suggestions for a framework oforganizational continuity and change 1Miriam Feuls and Tor Hernes2 Integrating the missing link of episodic continuityinto change theorizing 23Majken Schultz and Tor Hernes3 Complex and dynamic complementarities ofcontinuity and change revealed in outsourcing andbacksourcing 45Kätlin Pulk4 Notes on continuity and change during innovation 65Raghu Garud and Jacob A. Klopp5 New ways of working or not? Transcending thecontinuity versus change conundrum throughboundary events 87Anthony Hussenot and Jeremy Aroles6 The communicative constitution of organizationalcontinuity and change in, through and over time 103Mie Plotnikof and Nicolas Bencherki7 Imaginary practices as the nexus betweencontinuity and disruptive change 125Iben Sandal Stjerne, Anders Buch and Matthias Wenzel8 Narrative habitus: how actors connect episodicand continuous change in the moment 145Henrik Koll and Astrid Jensen9 Towards a nuanced explanation of historicallyconditioned continuity: interdependent actionpatterns as enacted history 165Blagoy Blagoev and Waldemar Kremser10 Re-embracing a rejected past in the flow of time:the shifting roles of nostalgia and nostophobia 183Are Branstad and Ansgar Ødegård11 The role of organisational narrative in continuityand change of organisations 205Frans Bévort12 Approaches to studying continuity and change 223Ann LangleyIndex

‘This volume provides a cutting edge treatment of both sides of organizational temporality: continuity and change. It does so not by a reductionist analysis emphasizing one or the other side, but by considering the many types of relationships between the two. The book’s twelve chapters explore how continuity and change relate to one another in a yin-yang like relationship and posit several different “takes” on this relationship. Scholars of organizational change and development will find bright new perspectives and insightful critiques in this volume, and I highly recommend it to both beginning and experienced scholars of this subject.’