TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,Mark
TI  - Do 70 per cent of all organizational change initiatives really fail?
SN  - 14697017
AV  - HD58.8 JOU 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Abingdon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - OrgSuccess factor
KW  - Methodological criticism
N2  - A 70 per cent failure rate is frequently attributed to organizational-change initiatives, raising questions about the origins and supporting evidence for this very specific statistic. This article critically reviews five separate published instances identifying a 70 per cent organizational-change failure rate. In each instance, the review highlights the absence of valid and reliable empirical evidence in support of the espoused 70 per cent failure rate. Organizational-change research and scholarship now exists which enables us to question the belief in inherent organizational-change failure rates. Inherent failure rates are critically questioned in terms of the ambiguities of change, the context-dependent nature of change, competing perceptions, temporal aspects and measurability. In conclusion, whilst the existence of a popular narrative of 70 per cent organizational-change failure is acknowledged, there is no valid and reliable empirical evidence to support such a narrative
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2011.630506
ER  -