Sameness, Otherness? Enriching Organizational Change Theories With Philosophical Considerations On The Same And The Other
讨论组织变革文献中反复使用的“同一性原则”和受当代哲学启发的“他异性”原则，回顾四种经典变革方法，强调组织中权力代理人作为他异性载体的作用，并提出相关命题。
Our objective is to discuss, in the organizational change literature, the recurring use of what we call the “sameness principle,” along with another principle, inspired by contemporary philosophy and somehow present in the organizational ethics literature, called “otherness.” We review four classic organizational change approaches, underscore the limitations of the sameness principle, and position otherness relative to current organizational ethics literature. We then emphasize the role of powerful agents within the organization as potential conveyors of otherness and deduce propositions that relate these agents' posture to the observable type of organizational change processes.