How our book on Organisational Change Management came about

Ever wondered how books like Organizational Change Management: Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice come about?

Here is our story…

Over the years I have ordered lots of inspection copies from publishers like Sage on Organisational Change trying to find a textbook that I could use to support my students on a variety of change management related modules that I have taught over the course of my academic career. I’d never really had a core textbook that I used across the whole module because I could never find one that I really liked enough to make it the core text. Instead, I was using a a selection of chapters from a variety of different books, as well as lots of journal articles and case studies for students.

When I described this challenge to a commissioning editor at Sage about three years ago, she asked me “What was I looking for that I couldn’t find? What what was missing?”

Really, I was looking for two key things.

Firstly, I couldn’t find a book that I felt really appreciated the real world complexity of change in organizations and the variety of issues that I’d seen within my research. I couldn’t find anything that dealt holistically with change as I witnessed it being experienced.

Secondly, I felt that a lot of change management books assumed that practitioners have a lot more control over the strategic decisions than I felt was the reality from people who I was interviewing in my research, who were doing change management and organizations.

After some time and further reflection, together with Paul Richard Kelly and Stefano Cirella we decided to put together a proposal for a book that filled these gaps.

…and then… quite simply… we wrote it!

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