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- Title
Consulting Organizational Change Cooperation - Challenges, Issues and Solutions in Theory and Practice.
- Authors
Prammer, Karl; Neugebauer, Christian
- Abstract
The cooperation capacity of public organizations and profit companies is an increasingly valuable resource. Cooperation partners come from profit and non-profit organizations and from organizations in the public domain, and all are subject to a financial and legal context. Coming from such completely different working contexts, logics and cultures, the potential partner organizations provide services parallel to each other (many times in a competitive relationship). How can those partners jointly "co-produce" benefits through cooperation? Within such an environment, a shared case for action needs to take place, generating enough "energy" for the key players to embark on such a cooperative adventure. How is it possible to initiate such a process? At the end of a cooperative change process, it is vital that the cooperation is fully developed and established. How should the cooperation project be designed and implemented so that cooperation can continue? This article discusses these issues and challenges using a case study. From the consultants' perspective, the article explores the question of how collaborative change processes can be successfully managed and consulted through concrete interventions (e.g. organizational design, process design, settings, etc.). From a scientific perspective, the article tries to show which challenges and issues have to be considered. In this interaction between practical action and theoretical reflection, the article specifically describes what happened in the change process, but also generalizes aspects that offer theoretical insights into OD change processes in inter- and trans-organizational cooperation.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL change; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; NONPROFIT organizations; MANAGEMENT; COOPERATION
- Publication
Journal of Management & Change, 2012, Vol 29, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
2228-2181
- Publication type
Article