**2. Research Methodology—Literature Review**

For this article, we conducted a literature review using a method developed by Fink (2005). A search was conducted for articles and books that link power and/or politics to organizational change. Several searches were performed on different databases for the selection of the relevant literature. Initially, the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

**Citation:** Maes, Guido, and Geert Van Hootegem. 2022. Power and Politics in Different Change Discourses. *Administrative Sciences* 12: 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/ admsci12020064

Received: 31 March 2022 Accepted: 23 May 2022 Published: 28 May 2022

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was polled. In addition, databases such as Social Abstracts, EBSCO, and Proquest, as well as several databases from publishers such as Emerald, JSTOR, Sage, ScienceDirect, Spingerlink, and Wiley, were also used. For books, the Librisource Plus (BE) and the Library of Congress (USA) were used. All the databases were examined for the period 1970 to the present.

Given the vastness of the domain, we concentrated on articles on organizational power and politics and less on articles from political science. We also limited our research to power and politics that can be generalized at the organizational level and not at the team level or between individuals. Finally, only power and politics within the organization were considered and not of the organization in relation to its environment. The initial bibliographical study showed that the connection between change and power and politics is not so evident, and that the subject is less developed than one might expect at first sight. Therefore, in this article, we indicate where there is still room for further research.

We first explain how we understand the concepts of power and politics and next use the systems model of organizational change to examine how different discourses view the role of power and politics in change.
