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Journal of Organizational Change ManagementScholarly discussions on organization change focus mostly on critical success factors. Approximately 70 percent of planned organizational change initiatives fail, but they attract less research attention than the remaining success stories. In this special issue, we shall try to answer the question of why organizational change initiatives fail. Barriers to innovation and organizational change have been widely discussed in research literature, but they tend to be either very abstract (fear of change) or very local (immediate context). The barriers which are mentioned most frequently include employees' and managers' resistance to change, communication barriers, and organizational and decision-making structures. Lack of resources, such as qualified staff, time, and financial reserves, can also contribute to failure. From a systematic point of view, barriers to innovation shape the conditions for critical success factors, and thus should be adequately acknowledged in theoretical constructs. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=5125Deadline: 28th February 2014