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A nice summary of the sources of power and the main writers in the field (albeit biased towards sociological uses of the term rather than specifically organizational ones) can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(sociology)

Another brief summary of the issues around power and authority can be found at www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1650/htmlpower.html

A brief summary of Foucault and his views on power/knowledge can be found at: www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory54.htm

And a brief account of Machiavelli’s work can be found at: www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/MACHIAV.HTM
Machiavelli’s The Prince may be downloaded free from Project Gutenberg: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1232

You can find an article about politics and power in organizations – in this case university deans - at: http://www.aacsb.edu/handouts/DC05/Dean's Disease, Bedeian.pdf

A blog with some intelligent comments on some of the issues related to power can be found at: http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/283

A summary of Pfeffer and Salancik’s seminal 1978 book on resource dependency “The external Control of Organizations”, and which draws out the implications of resource dependency theory on the power of suppliers and buyers in the industry five/six forces model, can be found at: http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/NEWPRE/Orgs2/Pfeffer2.html

A nice working paper by New York University authors Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell & Stephen Mezias, which brings together the issues of pragmatic, cognitive and moral legitimacy with stakeholder power, can be found at: http://www.reputationinstitute.com/members/nyc06/Bridwell-Mitchell.pdf

The world Bank has a briefing paper on stakeholder analysis and how to assess their power, see: http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/PoliticalEconomy/stakeholderanalysis.htm

A brief evaluation of cultural change and the adaptive-coping cycle by Edgar Schein can be found at: http://www.solonline.org/res/wp/10012.html

A good review article that summarises work on the various models of the coping cycle (including Kubler-Ross’) and Lewin’s force field can be found (although it will require a payment or an Athens password) at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/0230150304.pdf

An evaluation of cultural change in British Airways and its Putting People First programme can be found at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/bs/research/2001-4.pdf (a version of the paper was published in Long Range Planning, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2002, Pages 179-194).
For more information on the Putting People First programme see the training consultants’ own website: http://www.tmius.com/trppf.HTML

An idiosyncratic and not very academic (but nevertheless rather insightful) commentary on Sir Howard Stringer’s problems in achieving a change in attitudes and behaviours at Sony can be found at: http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/03/howard_stringer.html and
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_48/b4060108.htm (although it has to be said that there seems to be very little information available on what precisely Sir Howard has done to bring about any change)
And for a summary of changes to the Japanese environment itself, see: http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10169956

For more information on the change management programme at Renault-Nissan see:
http://www.renault.com/renault_com/en/main/10_GROUPE_RENAULT/30_Strategie/05_Renault_contrat_2009/Engagements/index.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/4669056.stm
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2006/gb20060705_687911.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/gb20070208_805289.htm?chan=search

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