New paper: The Chronotopes of Change

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The Journal of Change Management has just published one of my paper, co-authored with Stewart Clegg. The paper is related to my research on UTS Business School and the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building.

Title: “The Chronotopes of Change: Actor- Networks in a Changing Business School”

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Processual change, actor-network, chronotope, translation, maintenance

To read it, click here.

To cite it: Lancione, M., Clegg, S.R., (2013), The chronotopes of change: Actor-networks in a changing Business School, The Journal of Change Management, DOI:10.1080/14697017.2012.753930

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