Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation by Patrick Dawson

Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation by Patrick Dawson

A fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success.

Previous editions of this book have been widely praised and rightly soIn this new version significant updates and additions have been made to ensure critical engagement with key conceptual advances, contemporary debates and practical insight. As such Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation deserves to remain the source of choice for the thoughtful and reflective student of innovation or change practitioner.

-- Ian McLoughlin * Professor of Management, Monash University, Australia and Visiting Professor, Warwick University, UK *

Dawson & Andriopoulos′ book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on organizational change. This well-written and comprehensive book highlights the critical importance of analyzing interactions between individual, group, temporal, and environmental factors throughout the process of organizational change. Presented in an interesting and highly readable style, this book will be of considerable value to students, scholars and business practitioners alike. Highly recommended.

-- Professor Kenneth McBey

This book does a masterful job of promoting critical thinking to managing change and creativity.

-- David M. Boje

With each successive edition, this book just gets better and better.  It is essential reading for anyone who has an interest in managing and changing organizations.

-- Professor Bernard Burnes

For students and practitioners, this is a benchmark text on the process of organizational change. Why do many planned changes fail to meet their goals? Change management is often presented as a reaction to business problems, but change can also be proactive, driven by entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and innovation. Combining these perspectives in a processual framework, this text offers fresh explanations, beyond oversimplified guidelines and complex theories, with new case studies and updated material. The authors present a cross-disciplinary set of models and techniques in a style sensitive to corporate, managerial and individual concerns.

 

-- David A. Buchanan

‘By adopting an explicitly processual and temporal stance, Dawson and Andriopoulos go beyond simple prescriptions to conceive change, innovation and creativity as continuously inter-weaving and co-emergent dynamics of social engagement. This novel perspective not only has potential to liberate students and researchers from the constraints of overly abstracted thinking, but it also resonates strongly with the lived experiences of practising managers.’

-- Dr Barbara Simpson

Patrick Dawson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. He holds a PhD in Industrial Sociology from the University of Southampton and during his early career, worked at the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh. Constantine Andriopoulos is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Associate Dean for MBA Programmes at Bayes Business School (formerly known as Cass), City, University of London. He holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde and has previously worked at the University of Strathclyde, the University of Aberdeen, Brunel University and Cardiff University.

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ISBN 13	9781473964280
ISBN 10	1473964288
Title	Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation
Author	Patrick Dawson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2017-04-12
Number of pages	664
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