Can you feel the change of seasons? Perspectives of academic staff on organizational change

Mergers, distance, and leadership: Perceptions of different forms of distance to leadership in merger processes

“…These tensions become particularly pertinent when multi-campus institutions across long geographical distances engage in attempts to create stronger organisational integration. Such a situation may amplify existing tensions, reconfigure some that emerge in a merger process, and potentially provide a basis for unresolvable issues in the organisation (Borlaug et al, 2023;Huisman et al, 2023). Exploring how distance is perceived and played out in the context of complex organisational change processes is vital to understanding the forces that may contribute to the integration of the new organisation and those that may inhibit it.…”