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Liberation management, regulative and normative constraints: an empirical study of the sources of resistance to change

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  • Yuewu Duan

    (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School)

  • Patrick Gilbert

    (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School)

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This research explores a partially studied yet important issue in the liberation management and change management literature: regulative and normative constraints at the microlevel of organizations. It seeks to answer the following questions: how do they function, and what are their effects during liberation management implementation? The analysis is based on an analytic autoethnography by a practitioner manager in a commercial organization implementing a radical change involving liberation management. This research setting enables a thick description of practices in situ from an inside reflexive practitioner; it proposes a frame of analysis on the sources of resistance to change with a multidimensional, dynamic, and holistic perspective. In terms of managerial contribution, this work provides practitioners of organizational change with a tool to anticipate systematically and holistically the risks of resistance that may emerge from each of the dimensions included in the frame of analysis. As such, this study narrows the unhelpful research–practice gap.

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  • Yuewu Duan & Patrick Gilbert, 2025. "Liberation management, regulative and normative constraints: an empirical study of the sources of resistance to change," Post-Print hal-04993187, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04993187
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