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Climbing Bridalveil Falls: organization change, process and re‐engineering
Author(s) -
Collins David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
strategic change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1099-1697
pISSN - 1086-1718
DOI - 10.1002/jsc.570
Subject(s) - climbing , limiting , process (computing) , representation (politics) , transition (genetics) , sociology , epistemology , organizational change , law and economics , computer science , positive economics , public relations , political science , economics , law , philosophy , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , structural engineering , politics , gene , operating system
This paper offers a metaphorical analysis of organization change, which argues that our understanding of the problems and processes of change reflects a representation of a fluxing reality, frozen by limiting assumptions. In an attempt to break free from these restrictive assumptions the paper sets out to encourage readers to re‐imagine change in a qualitatively different manner—as the essence of organization. Offering a comparative analysis of the contributions, the paper argues that the more conservative contribution offered by the latter offers a more faithful appreciation of the complexities of organization change. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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