Organizational change and strategy : an interlevel dynamics approach / David Coghlan and Nicholas S. Rashford

Includes bibliographical references and index

Levels and interlevels --Organizational levels: Theory and practice -- Action research activity 1.1 -- Case: Omega Foundation -- Interlevel dynamics -- Action research activity 2.1 -- Action research activity 2.2 -- Case: the IT investment -- Case: interlevel dynamics in extended manufacturing enterprise -- Interlevel change -- The process of learning and change -- Action research activity 3.1 -- Case: the failed acquisition -- The interlevel dynamics of large system change -- Action research activity 4.1 -- Case: Saint Joseph's University -- Phases and levels of change -- Action research activity 5.1 -- Case: A T&T long lines division -- Case: Saint Joseph's University -- The strategy process through interlevel change -- Introduction to strategy and the five strategic foci -- Framing the corporate picture -- Action research activity 7.1 -- Action research activity 7.2 -- Case: ABC Insurance company -- Case: Saint Joseph's University -- Naming the corporate words -- Action research activity 8.1 -- Action research activity 8.2 -- Case: ABC Insurance company -- Case: Diaz Steel Group -- Doing corporate analysis -- Action research activity 9.1 -- Action research activity 9.2 -- Case: Verticalnet -- Case: ABC Insurance company -- Choosing and implementing corporate actions -- Action research activity 10.1 -- Action research activity 10.2 -- Case: ABC Insurance company -- Case: Saint Joseph's University -- Evaluating corporate actions -- Action research activity 11.1 -- Action research activity 11.2 -- Case: ABC Insurance company -- Case: Exportadora Subsole S.A -- The relationships between the five strategic foci -- Integration -- The great Atlantic and Pacific Team Company case