Research in Organizational Change and Development

Abraham B. (Rami) Shani is Professor at the Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, USA. He has edited and authored numerous publications in the areas of organizational change and development, collaborative research methodologies, learning in and by organizations, sustainability, and sustainable effectiveness. His recent publications include Conducting Action Research and two 4-volume sets: Action Research in Business and Management and Foundation of Organization Development.Debra A. Noumair is a Professor, Director of Executive Education Programs in Change & Consultation, and Founder and Director of the Executive Master’s Program in Change Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is also the co-author of Organization Development: A Process of Learning and Changing; co-editor of Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality, and Social Complexity: Group Relations Reader 3; and, Associate Editor of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.

• TOWARDS A SOCIAL SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE; David Coghlan, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani and George W. Hay POSTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND AGENTS OF CHANGE; Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn HUMILITY AS AN ENABLER OF ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH AND CHANGE; Melissa A. Norcross and Michael R. Manning A SOCIO-ECONOMIC APPROACH TO ORANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDY OF A SOCIO-ECONOMIC INTERVENTION IN THE BELGIUM SUBSIDIARY OF A LARGE COMPANY TRADED ON WALL STREET; Olivier Voyant, Frantz Datry, Amandine Savall, Véronique Zardet and Marc Bonnet KEY TENSIONS IN PURPOSIVE ACTION BY MIDDLE MANAGERS LEADING CHANGE; Jean E. Neumann, Kim Turnbull James and Russ Vince FACILITATING CHANGE THROUGH GROUPS: FORMATION OF COLLECTIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS CHANGE; Dave Bouckenooghe, Gavin M. Schwarz, Bradley Hastings and Sandor G. Lukacs de Pereny LEADING IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES IN CONFRONTATION WITH PARADOXES; Laura Galuppo, Mara Gorli, Benjamin N. Alexander and Giuseppe Scaratti EXPLORING AGILE THRIVING TEAMS IN CONTINUOUS CHANGE ENVIRONMENTS; Rachael L. Narel, Therese Yaeger and Peter Sorenson

This volume compiles eight essays by business, management, and other researchers from North America, Europe, and Australia, who explore organizational change and development. They discuss a social science philosophy of organization development and change; positive organizational scholarship and the role it plays in change; humility in collaborative organization development and change work; a socioeconomic approach to organizational development, using the case study of a Belgian subsidiary of a large company traded on Wall Street; tensions that middle managers experience in leading change; facilitating change through groups; how leaders in social entrepreneurship develop organizational resources in the context of paradoxes of engagement; and enhancing a culture of inclusive, agile, and thriving teams to help organizations' resilience in an environment of continuous change.