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1. Managing Change in Extreme Contexts

   Edited by David A. Buchanan, David Denyer, Colin Pilbeam

   Series: Understanding Organizational Change

   Big mistakes or misconduct, serious accidents and other disasters are normally followed by investigations which explore what went wrong. These produce recommendations to limit the damage from a future event, or to prevent it altogether. In many cases, this doesn’t happen, and ‘repeat crises’ occur....

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Sustainability and Spread of Organizational Change

   Modernizing Healthcare

   Edited by David A. Buchanan, Louise Fitzgerald, Diane Ketley

   Series: Understanding Organizational Change

   This important book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices. The question of why good ideas do not spread, ‘the best practices puzzle’, has been widely recognized. But the ‘improvement evaporation effect’, where successful changes are discontinued, has...

   Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge