This article explores the implications of teaching students about collaborative practice in organizations and how collaboration in making changes requires finding and developing alternative models to traditional approaches. It discusses the limits of models of planned change that are taught in organizational practice, identifies the underlying assumptions of collaborative approaches to change, and proposes a beginning framework for teaching students how to use collaborative change in organizations.
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