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Transitioning organizations to the new normal following environmental shocks, economic upheavals, and technological innovations is a challenge to classic organizational management. The main reason: because no single organization knows precisely what the target of change is. Resources created and operated in relationships can support the organization in overcoming its constraints, changing faster, and adapting better.
This book takes a relational perspective on how organizations adjust and adapt to their turbulent environment. Drawing from a broad literature and empirical studies, this book offers novel insights into how businesses create, grow, and manage relationships with partners to support strategic change. It discusses the benefits of cooperating with partners and relying on shared resources, while controlling relational risks. It presents key relational processes including organizational intelligence, open culture, knowledge sharing routines, motivation, co-creation, and communication. It discusses focus areas: longevity of family firms, improving health and safety in medical services, crisis management, public administration reforms, and relational risk management.
This book is a valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of organizational studies, organizational change, technology, and innovation management. Managers and entrepreneurs can find inspiration, motivation, and strategies for implementing and managing relationships along the value chain.
List of contents
Part I. Relational Perspective on Change in Turbulent Environments 1. Transforming Organizations in Turbulent Environments Yochanan Shachmurove 2. Towards a Relational Strategic Orientation Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska & Dorota Piotrowska 3. Change and Relational Strategies: Through an Organizational Intelligence Lens Anna Adamik 4. Open Organizational Culture in Relationship Creation Katarzyna Szymańska 5. Consumer Co-Creation in Organizational Change Magdalena Kalińska-Kula 6. Organizational Change through a Motivational Perspective Maria Prats Part II. Effecting Change: Methods and Techniques 7. Stimulating Change with Knowledge Sharing Routines Sylwia Flaszewska 8. Changing Organizations Using Workspace Design: The Role of Context Punit Arora 9. Positive Communication of Change in Financial Markets Karol Marek Klimczak, Dominika Hadro, & Jan Makary Fryczak 10. Relational Contracts and Change in Family Firms Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro 11. Strategic Crisis Management Using Relational Resources Anna Walecka 12. Health and Safety Strategy in Medical Institutions: Employee Participation Katarzyna Boczkowska & Konrad Niziołek Part III. Managing Risk in Relational Strategies 13. Managing Risk Spillovers and Alliance Relational Capability Ian P. L. Kwan 14. Managing Relational Risk in Turbulent Environments Iwona Staniec
About the author
Karol Marek Klimczak (PhD) is Professor of Management at Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland.
Yochanan Shachmurove (PhD) is Professor of Economics and Business at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.
Summary
Transitioning organizations to the new normal following environmental shocks, economic upheavals and technological innovations is a challenge to classic organizational management, because no single organization knows with precision what the target of change is.
