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Chapter 10

The following list of books, journals, films, TV programmes and web links are especially recommended as resources you may find helpful for further study on the subject of 'Organizational Systems and Strategic Change'


Price, Colin, ‘Business and the art of transformation’, Colin Price, McKinsey Quarterly., August 2006.
Colin Price talks to a number of successful leaders to gain their insights into leading change.

Fineman, S (2003). Understanding emotion at work, Sage (Chapters 8).
Explores the emotional aspect of change at work.

Kaplan, R and Norton, D (2006) ‘How to implement a new strategy without disrupting your organization’ Harvard Business Review, 84(3), p100-109.
Kaplan and Norton argue that changing organizational structure is usually not necessary when implementing a new strategy.

Roberto, Michael A.; Levesque, Lynne C.(2005), ‘The art of making change initiatives stick’ MIT Sloan Management Review, 46(4), pp53-60.
The authors present a case study illustrating how change initiatives can be sustained.

BBC, ’Transforming Aquascutum’, 10 Oct, 2006. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6063238.stm.
The Money Programme, October 2006, The programme follows the reinvention of Aquascutum, the flagging British clothes brand. Although the reinvention happens incredibly quickly, is it anything more than a quick fix? Have the reasons for the decline of the company been addressed?