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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.
Author(s): Lancione M, Clegg SR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Change Management
Year: 2013
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 117-142
Online publication date: 16/04/2013
ISSN (print): 1469-7017
ISSN (electronic): 1479-1811
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2012.753930
DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2012.753930
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