Handbook of organizational change and innovation /

Poole (Texas A&M) and Van de Ven (Univ. of Minnesota; past president of the Academy of Management), authors of numerous publications, have produced a remarkable, scholarly work, well executed and academically sound. It is clear that these editors set out with a mission--to find the best scholars in the field and encourage them to create a work that is analytically sound and integrates the best thinking of others; appropriately so, they clearly have left the mark of their own scholarship on the final product. The theoretical ideas presented in the 13 chapters form a creditable mosaic of the field of organizational change and innovation. The 24 contributing scholars from the US, Canada, and Europe address a wide range of topics, including individual and group dynamics in organizational change, organizational change theories, and the influence of culture on organizational change and innovation. One chapter provides a literature review and synthesis of the scholarship on social, technical, and institutional change. This valuable resource for those seeking to understand organizational change is a must for every university research library. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. J. B. Kashner emeritus, College of the Southwest