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Author Kocher, Lukas, author.

Title Informal networks and organizational change : positive contributions and the role of identification / Lukas Kocher
Published Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer Gabler, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 73 pages) : illustrations
Series BestMasters, 2625-3577
BestMasters, 2625-3577
Contents Informal Organizational Networks -- Contributions of Informal Networks to Organizational Change -- Re-assessing Perceptions of Informal Organizational Networks -- Capturing Informality in Organizations: Countervailing Processes
Summary This thesis examines the role of informal employee networks and their potential positive contributions to a successful implementation of disruptive organizational change. It relies on an in-depth analysis of qualitative data, collected in 13 semi-structured interviews. The findings show that in times of organizational change, employees countervail the capacities of their informal networks to optimize organizational effectiveness and efficiency against the effectiveness and efficiency of prevalent formal organizational structures. A central dynamic also detected in the findings is the role of organizational identification as a key driver to engage in informal networks to positively support an organization's change process implementation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 30, 2019)
Subject Organizational change.
Organizational change
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783658282844
3658282843