Previous editions of this book have been widely praised and rightly so. In this new version significant updates and additions have been made to ensure critical engagement with key conceptual advances, contemporary debates and practical insight. As such Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation deserves to remain the source of choice for the thoughtful and reflective student of innovation or change practitioner.
-- Ian McLoughlin ― Professor of Management, Monash University, Australia and Visiting Professor, Warwick University, UK Published On: 2017-01-27
‘By adopting an explicitly processual and temporal stance, Dawson and Andriopoulos go beyond simple prescriptions to conceive change, innovation and creativity as continuously inter-weaving and co-emergent dynamics of social engagement. This novel perspective not only has potential to liberate students and researchers from the constraints of overly abstracted thinking, but it also resonates strongly with the lived experiences of practising managers.’
-- Dr Barbara Simpson Published On: 2017-01-13
With each successive edition, this book just gets better and better. It is essential reading for anyone who has an interest in managing and changing organizations.
-- Professor Bernard Burnes Published On: 2017-01-05
For students and practitioners, this is a benchmark text on the process of organizational change. Why do many planned changes fail to meet their goals? Change management is often presented as a reaction to business problems, but change can also be proactive, driven by entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and innovation. Combining these perspectives in a processual framework, this text offers fresh explanations, beyond oversimplified guidelines and complex theories, with new case studies and updated material. The authors present a cross-disciplinary set of models and techniques in a style sensitive to corporate, managerial and individual concerns.
-- David A. Buchanan Published On: 2017-01-05
Dawson & Andriopoulos′ book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on organizational change. This well-written and comprehensive book highlights the critical importance of analyzing interactions between individual, group, temporal, and environmental factors throughout the process of organizational change. Presented in an interesting and highly readable style, this book will be of considerable value to students, scholars and business practitioners alike. Highly recommended.
-- Professor Kenneth McBey Published On: 2017-01-23
This book does a masterful job of promoting critical thinking to managing change and creativity.
-- David M. Boje Published On: 2017-02-01 Patrick Dawson is Professor of Organizational Change at the University of Northumbria and Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. He holds a PhD in Industrial Sociology from the University of Southampton and during his early career, worked at the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh. He moved to Australia in the 1980s and took up a lectureship at the University of Adelaide. In 1997, he took up the Salvesen Chair in Management at the University of Aberdeen, where he undertook senior administrative roles including Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Business School. After a sabbatical in 2005, Patrick reduced his time at Aberdeen and took up a professorial appointment at the University of Wollongong (2006-2016) and the University of Adelaide (2017-2019), regularly travelling between the two countries. He has held visiting professorships at Roskilde University, Lund University and the Danish Technical University, as well as an adjunct professorship at Monash University.
In extended case study research in the UK and Australia, Patrick has been actively engaged in longitudinal studies on innovation and change for over forty years in a range of organizations, including Pirelli Cables, British Rail, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, the CSIRO and Micro-X. Many of these funded projects were collaborations with scholars from other universities, resulting in the publication of over 60 refereed journal articles, 14 books, 50 book chapters and numerous conference papers.
Constantine Andriopoulos is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Director of the Research Centre for Innovation and Disruption at the Business School (formerly Cass). Costas is internationally recognized for his work on organizational ambidexterity; how companies in high-velocity markets can excel at both incremental (exploiting current capabilities) and discontinuous (exploring into new space) innovation.
He is an award-winning researcher and teacher. His research, funded by the Carnegie Trust and European Commission among others, has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed academic and practitioner journals including Organization Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Human Relations, California Management Review, Long Range Planning, and is widely cited. Due to the popularity and impact of his research, he consistently ranks at the top 5% authors on innovation management globally.
Costas is an active business consultant (Director of Avyssos Advisors Ltd., an innovation management consultancy), educator and advisor, working with CEOs and senior teams around the world. He has delivered executive education courses to utilities, insurance, energy, FMCG, satellite, SMEs and government organisations. He is also very active on social media and a frequent contributor to articles in the popular and managerial press, including outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Times, Reuters, among others.
