Organizational Inertia and Momentum: A Dynamic Model Of Strategic Change
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Influence Costs, Structural Inertia, and Organizational Change
This paper builds an economic model of the relationship between influence activity and resistance to change in organizations. I show that influence activity can create harmful barriers to change and that the influence costs of change are positively related to the firm’s prospects. The model rationalizes the widely held view that firms often must endure a survival-threatening crisis before meani...
متن کاملStructural Inertia and Organizational Change Revisited III: The Evolution of Organizational Inertia*
Building on a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change initiated in Hannan, Pólos, and Carroll (2002a, 2002b), this paper focuses on structural inertia. We define inertia as a persistent organizational resistance to changing architectural features. We examine the evolutionary consequences of architectural inertia. The main theorem holds that selection favors architectura...
متن کاملOrganizational Strategic Adaptation in the Presence of Inertia
This paper extends the particle swarm metaphor into the domain of organization science. A simulator (OrgSwarm) which can be used to model the adaptation of a population of organizations on a strategic landscape is introduced. The simulator embeds a number of features of the process of organizational adaptation, including the resistance of organizations to change (strategic inertia), errorful as...
متن کاملStimulation of Organizational Inertia: Identification of the Dimensions and Components of Organizational Inertia at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Background & Objective: Considering the current unstable environment, organizations are faced with numerous changes and should adapt to various environmental factors. The present study aimed to evaluate the dimensions and components of organizational inertia at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Iran. Materials and Methods: This applied study was conducted based on an explorator...
متن کاملthe innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran
آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...
15 صفحه اولذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academy of Management Journal
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0001-4273,1948-0989
DOI: 10.5465/256407