The Chronotopes of Change: Actor-Networks in a Changing Business School
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Change Management, 2013, 13 (2), pp. 117 - 142
- Issue Date:
- 2013-06-01
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This article investigates how a leading business school is reshaping its identity through a process that includes, but is not limited to, the building of a new facility designed by the Canadian architect Frank Gehry, as well as a major revision of the teaching programmes, ethos and branding. By investigating this process in an actor-network theory fashion, and introducing the notion of chronotope, the article answers three central questions related to the notion of change: How does organizational change happen in the daily life of a project? What gives unity to a chain of small relational changes? How can processual change possibly be managed? Theoretically, the article argues that change emerges in the micro-dynamics of organizing, fragments that are stitched together by macro-dominant narratives, in a constant process of translations that occur between human and non-human actants. The management of change is pursued through a constant micro-politics of network maintenance and enactment. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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