TY - JOUR
T1 - Empowerment and Internal Activism During Organizational Change
T2 - A Relocation Story in China
AU - Luo, Yi
AU - Jiang, Hua
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Based on 18 interviews with employees of a multinational food giant operating in Mainland China, this study examined how employees enacted an activist role during a relocation change by adopting various empowerment strategies such as creating opposing identities, framing the target blame, building alliances, making threats, seeking bilateral compromises, and others. These activists successfully pressured top management to change from its nonresponse to negotiation with the union. The significance of this study lies in examining the first self-organized union and internal activism case in a multinational company operating in Mainland China.
AB - Based on 18 interviews with employees of a multinational food giant operating in Mainland China, this study examined how employees enacted an activist role during a relocation change by adopting various empowerment strategies such as creating opposing identities, framing the target blame, building alliances, making threats, seeking bilateral compromises, and others. These activists successfully pressured top management to change from its nonresponse to negotiation with the union. The significance of this study lies in examining the first self-organized union and internal activism case in a multinational company operating in Mainland China.
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U2 - 10.1080/1553118X.2013.810628
DO - 10.1080/1553118X.2013.810628
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890408543
SN - 1553-118X
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - International Journal of Strategic Communication
JF - International Journal of Strategic Communication
IS - 1
ER -