Organizational Control as Antidote to Politics in the Pursuit of Strategic Initiatives

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL AS ANTIDOTE TO POLITICS IN THE PURSUIT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES MARKUS KREUTZER,* JORGE WALTER,3 and LAURA B. CARDINAL4 1 Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2 Department of Management and Economics, EBS University, Wiesbaden, Germany 3 Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. 4 C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.