Agency and Change

<p>This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations</p><p>Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. </p><p>Well-written with challenging content this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity risk and uncertainty.</p>