1997
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.8.s1.3
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Horse Races, Governance and the Chance to Fight: On the Formation of Organizational Agendas

Abstract: We consider the formation of issues on the organizational agenda of a manufacturing firm. We find that the patterns of issue formation vary markedly and we develop an analytic framework to examine a number of emerging, potentially ambiguous issues. We emphasize the importance to the organization of perceptions of collective freedom to construct an issue, the role of issue labelling and perceptions of emerging consensus over the construction of an issue. Jointly, these considerations affect whether an issue gai… Show more

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“…Work by Buchanan and Boddy (1992) into thè public performance and backstage activity' of the change agent highlights the need for change agents to manage three parallel agendas (1992: 28): l Content agenda: the substance of the change eg introducing teamworking, in which the change agent must have technical competence; l Control agenda: planning, budgeting, resourcing etc; and l Process agenda: implementation skills in terms of in¯uencing, negotiation, political skills in managing resistance, building coalitions and the management of ritual and meaning. More recent work by Pitt et al (1997) reveals the delicate political process of creating the agenda in the ® rst place before any of the above is executed. The expertise of the change agent also lies in his or her ability to construct a consensus about which emergent issues are important before work on those agendas is started.…”
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confidence: 99%