ABSTRACT
In order to make an episodic intervention in the structure of an organization a success, it is insufficient to concentrate only on the functional dimension of the intervention. Organizations are social systems consisting of interactions that are ‘produced’ against a background of interaction premises. Intervening in an organization therefore means interactively changing interactions and interaction premises in such a way that, in the end, its new structure becomes an organizational reality. This is the social dimension of episodic interventions. It is the goal of this chapter to discuss this social dimension by specifying the three social goals – ‘motivation’, ‘adoption’, and ‘integration’ – that should be realized in order to make an episodic intervention a success.
