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Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.

Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the Network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two...

Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group - a group of teachers - that was creating change in its organization setting, a network of independent schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change....

While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic. Many aspects of this knowledge co-creation can create tensions, and the ways in which research is conducted and published can affect practitioner acceptance, as well as its consequent uptake and use in different contexts.

Expertly compiled by Jean Bartunek and Jane McKenzie, with contributions from global thinkers in the field, this book offers a...

Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Its strength lies in two key areas:

• the discussion and explanation of a strategic sensemaking approach, for helping managers, management educators and students to understand organizational change
• a longitudinal study of a major company which underwent several organizational changes, revealing some of the key problems and challenges that managers face when...

The articles that comprise this volume concern topics derived from the organization sciences, including, but not limited to, the areas of: organizational behaviour, organization theory, strategic management, human resource management and organizational development.

Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Its strength lies in two key areas:

• the discussion and explanation of a strategic sensemaking approach, for helping managers, management educators and students to understand organizational change
• a longitudinal study of a major company which underwent several organizational changes, revealing some of the key problems and challenges that managers face when...