Organizational Change: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?

This study was conducted to determine the most studied topics which studied in organizational change management and pave the way the future research in organizational change. For this purpose, first of all, concept of organizational change is explained by theoretical view. Then, the studies which were conducted before 2000 and after 2000 to today were examined in dimension of content, context, process and outcome. As a result, Theories of change, leadership and change, organizational change in multi-national company, organizational culture and change, employees’ behaviour, information technology and organizational development strategies are the most studied topics of organizational change literature. Also we stressed that leadership and technological change are the most studied topics especially after 2000, and non-linear changing approaches because of the fact that uncertainty and chaos in nowadays.