Breaking the Code of Change - Hardcover

Beer, O Of Change By Michael; Nohria, Nitin; E, Resolving The Tension Between Theory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578513316 ISBN 13: 9781578513314

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2000

Synopsis

This work gathers together a collection of debates on organizational change. The articles are arranged into three groups - point counterpoint, and commentary - to give a dynamic, conversational appeal. It offers an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Theory E and Theory O of change.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

From Library Journal:

Throughout corporate America, organizational change has become one of the most embraced, yet perhaps the least understood, of all the hot-button issues. Editors Beer and Nohria (Harvard Business Sch.) present a keenly written summary of the findings from their August 1998 conference on change, which featured a diverse group of academics, consultants, and CEOs who have researched, enabled, or led successful corporate-change transformations. The book is organized around debates attended by the conference's "change masters," and the editors present what they perceive as the two main organizational change models in practice today: Theory E (creation of economic value) and Theory O (development of organizational capability). Chapters reveal opposing debates on the purpose of change, leading the change process, and the focus of change, among other topics. A synthesis by a conference moderator follows each debate and is in turn followed by a conference critique and an epilog by the authors indicating what you already could guess: they have not yet broken the "code of change" but have helped better understand organizational change and identify key strategic considerations. Highly recommended for university libraries supporting business curricula.DDale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1578513316
• ISBN 13: 9781578513314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Beer Michael, Nohria Nitin