Counterpoint: How Heterogeneity Among Family Firms Influences Organizational Change

Knowledge Integration and Dynamic Organizational Adaptation in Family Firms

The speed of change in competitive environments has prompted firms to develop processes directed at enabling organizational adaptation. This is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities.We focus on a particular form of business organization, that is, the family firm. Specifically, we argue that knowledge integration—a dynamic capability through which family members’ specialized knowledge ...

Designing Work, Family & Health Organizational Change Initiatives.

For decades, leaders and scholars have been advocating change efforts to improve work-life relationships. Yet most initiatives have lacked rigor and not been developed using scientific principles. This has created an evidence gap for employer support of work and personal life as a win-win for productivity and employees' well-being. This paper examines the approach used by the U.S. Work Family H...

Learning How to Change Organizational Routines

In this paper, we contribute to the literature on organizational learning by developing a typology of organizational routines and proposing that effective managerial strategies for changing organizational routines vary depending upon the type of routine and the type of change required. We report here on our ongoing studies of one health care organization where management is developing strategie...

How Family Background Influences Student Achievement

A key goal of education is to ensure that every student has a chance to excel, both in school and in life. Increasingly, children’s success in school determines their success as adults, determining whether and where they go to college, what professions they enter and how much they can earn. School performance in primary and secondary school does not depend on a student’s mental and physical abi...

Improving Change Management: How Communication Nature Influences Resistance to Change