Sameness, otherness? Enriching organizational change theories with philosophical considerations on the same and the other

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Durand, R; Calori, R
• 署名单位: Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 93-114
• 关键词: BUSINESS ETHICS; institutional change; Stakeholder theory; entrepreneurship; strategy; conversations; PERSPECTIVE; BEHAVIOR; search; issue

摘要

Our objective is to discuss, in the organizational change literature, the recurring use of what we call the sameness principle, along with another principle, inspired by contemporary philosophy and somehow present in the organizational ethics literature. called otherness. We review four classic organizational change approaches, underscore the limitations of the sameness principle, and position otherness relative to current organizational ethics literature. We then emphasize the role of powerful agents within the organization as potential conveyors of otherness and deduce propositions that relate these agents' posture to the observable type of organizational change processes.