RESISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: THE ROLE OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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Change fatigue: Development and initial validation of a new measure (2011, background): “It appears that some employees embrace the opportunities that come with organizational change while others use maladaptive defence mechanisms such as denial or dissociation to cope with what they perceive to be a stress-arousing situation (Bovey & Hede, 2001).”
Does meaning‐making help during organizational change? Development and validation of a new scale (2009, background): “Despite the extensive research on implementation of organizational change, the need for further research to expand our understanding of why people resist or support change is still needed (Armenakis and Harris, 2009; Bouckenooghe, 2009; Bovey and Hede, 2001).”
Investigating user resistance to information systems implementation: a status quo bias perspective (2009, methodology): “…with the NOP system User resistance RTC4 I do not agree with the change to the new way of working with the NOP system Self- developed based on Bovey and Hede (2001) PVL1 Considering the time and effort that I have to spend, the change to the new way of working with the NOP system is…”