Professor Muayyad Jabri’s book was recently re-printed for a revised second edition.
The book lends itself to media coverage and it would appeal to a wider audience of practitioners and consultants. It makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of change and change management. It provides a surplus of new insights that will help to promote work in the area of managing change and to develop a more creative practice associated with the processes of managing change. It has been fully reviewed by leading scholars. Examples include:
‘Drawing on his extensive experience of teaching and studying organizations, and his in-depth knowledge of major authors, Professor Jabri achieves the remarkable task of introducing cutting-edge reflections to students and lecturers in easily accessible ways, through his clear explanations and the abundant use of case studies. This book should soon become a basic tool to teach and learn organizational change.’
─ Philippe Lorino, Distinguished Professor, ESSEC Business School, France
‘Drawn from a process orientation to change, this volume provides a refreshing twist to the traditional work in management and organizational studies. The twist comes through recasting classic topics in the change literature through the lens of dialogue. The book is a must read for students and scholars of organizational change and development, communication and organizational change, and practitioners involved in change management.’
─ Linda L. Putnam, Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication, University of California, USA
‘As we search for more dynamic, complex and relational ways of understanding organizations, there is an urgent need to enrich our vocabulary of change – to treat change in organizations as if change mattered. Muayyad Jabri’s marvelous textbook moves us closer to this objective. It is filled with refreshing ideas and insights that make us think and, even, feel change. Drawing on process philosophies as well as on state-of-the-art research on managing change, Muayyad invites his readers to appreciate the complexity and open-endedness of organizational change. This is insightful theory that makes a practical difference. Read this stuff and you begin to see organizations differently.’
─ Haridimos Tsoukas, The Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus, and Distinguished Research Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, UK
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