The Emergence of Change in Unexpected Places: Resourcing across Organizational Practices in Strategic Change

In our longitudinal, in-depth case study of strategic change within the National Health Service in England, we compare three practices related to contracting health care services. Contrary to what we would have believed from the extant literature, we found that the most profound change did not emerge in practices that witnessed the greatest increase in the quantity of resources or in which change agents were given the highest degree of control....