Change management and managerial subjectivity in an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturing plant
Anuratha Venkataraman
What the paper says
This paper is an outcome of my doctoral ethnographic fieldwork spanning over ten months in TKDWAG9, a constituent of VehicleCo, one of India's oldest and largest commercial vehicle manufacturing firms. The primary goal of the paper is to understand the interplay of managerial subjectivity with context and infrastructural constraints, including the reception of transplanted templates of change management and work reorganisation by senior and middle-level managers in brownfield plants. It also seeks to explore how competing priorities and managerial subjectivity negatively impacted corporate management's change management program at various levels of plant management. It also registers that this reluctance to embrace the change rhetoric extended to workers as well. The paper integrates managerial sense-making with the conception and operation of change management and lean manufacturing in brownfield automotive plants.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00 |
| M · momentum | 0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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