Shaping strategic change

Name: Shaping strategic change
Author: Andrew Pettigrew, Ewan Ferlie, Lorna McKee
ISBN: 0803987781

by Andrew Pettigrew, Ewan Ferlie, Lorna McKee (1992)

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In this major analysis of the processes and management of strategic change, Pettigrew, Ferlie and McKee develop a new model centred on receptive and non-receptive contexts for change. Both a powerful analytic device and a broad agenda for management practice, the model outlines key features of internal and external context and action to account for success or failure in change efforts, and for differences in the rate and pace of change. The authors consider the role and impact of such factors as environmental pressures for change; the quality and clarity of change goals and strategies; organizational cultures and inter-organizational relations supportive of change; availability of key people to lead change; and capability in managing change processes - turning 'problems and panics' into sustainable action. Underpinning the model is an extraordinarily rich and multilayered analysis which draws and builds on the authors' research in the British National Health Service during a period of dramatic restructuring. Pettigrew and his colleagues use the case material to look at different ends of strategic change - from strategic response to unanticipated crisis, to rationalization and retrenchment, to major growth and the creation of new organizations. They compare and contrast successful with less successful change efforts. They show how the facilitating factors they identify must interconnect to create the directed energy that shapes effective change. . Shaping Strategic Change will be indispensable reading for managers in private or public sector organizations and for all those studying strategic management, organizational change and public management.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreShaping strategic change Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Health & Wellness Case studies Health services administration National health services Organizational change Strategic planning Modern Era

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