ABSTRACT
The emergence of organizational change and innovation as issues for concern among academics and practitioners alike has been noted in several quarters of late. Separate literatures have emerged on innovation and on change, although the nature of this distinction has been seldom theorized. On examining the literature, some quite fundamental issues and shortcomings quickly became apparent. The topic of change has become increasingly popular in the literatures on management and organization. A major reason for this lies in the common assumption that organizations must deal with environmental changes of a speed and complexity never before experienced. The fields of work and organization psychology have long contributed to the understanding of change ‘in’ and ‘of’ organizations. Subject-object differentiation can be the ‘other way round’, so to speak: persons may be treated as subjects. Politics is understood in relation to the traditional concept of power within a subject-object perspective.
