Organizational performance and strategic inertia

Organizational 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...

Strategic Information Management: Organizational and Performance Aspects

Stimulation 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...

Structural 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...

Investigating Strategic Inertia Using OrgSwarm

This study describes a novel simulation model (OrgSwarm) of the process of strategic adaptation. Strategic adaptation is conceptualized as a process of adaptation (search), on a landscape of strategic possibilities, by a population of profit-seeking organizations. Unfortunately, the characteristics that make organizations coherent and viable such as organizational structure and shared organizat...