The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

11	Processes of Strategic Change: Some Patterns

The research reported in this book has afforded an unusual opportunity to descriptively examine, in a comparative mode, long-term processes of continuity and changing. The time has come now to reveal some of the patterns in these descriptive accounts of changing, first of all in this chapter by focussing on five of the reported cases of strategic organisational change, and then in Chapter 12 by comparing and contrasting the different pathways of development, impact, and fate of specialist OD resources in the four largest divisions and the corporate headquarters of ICI.

The initial purpose of this chapter is to move away from the empirical detail of the ICI cases of change, to summarise ...