Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: DragoČ™ Vasile Author-Name-First: DragoČ™ Author-Name-Last: Vasile Author-Email: dragos.vasile@com.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Title: Copying with organizational change in the tourism industry Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: The paper tackles the issue of organizational change in the tourism industry. The tourism industry is faced with a dynamic and complex environment that exerts constant pressures on its organizations and the adequate response of SMEs in tourism consists in making organizational changes. The paper examines four dimensions of organization`s ability to cope with change: (1) communication between the organization and its external environment, (2) the process dimension, (3) participation and communication, and (3) the capacity for change. Keywords: organizational change, tourism, readiness for change, change process, communication, capacity for change Classification-JEL: L21, M10, O44 Creation-Date: 2014 Year: 2014 Volume: 10 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol10/dragos_vasile.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2014-7