Abstract

BORGUCCI, Emmanuel. Resistance to Change in Organizations from the Perspective of Constructionist Structuralism. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2008, vol.13, n.43, pp.442-467. ISSN 1315-9984.

This article intends to demonstrate that in organizational processes, actors compete and establish power relations with other individuals to promote some rules of the game and a discourse that assures them a monopoly of organizational capital. In this light, a study was carried out using participant observation and in-depth interviews with a group of employees belonging to a bank office located in the city of Maracaibo, State of Zulia. Conclusions were that competition for organizational capital determined indexes of initial loss of control by the banking institution. On the other hand, when the company realized that its habitual practices and discourse were being challenged, they proceeded to re-implant the codes of belonging to this campus by substituting the team of functionaries and a restructuring of an operational and technological character without implying personnel firing.

Keywords : Resistance to change; organizational processes; habitus; campus; managerial discourse.