A Process Perspective on Organizational Failure: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis
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T1 - A Process Perspective on Organizational Failure
T2 - A Qualitative Meta-Analysis
AU - Habersang, Stefanie
AU - Küberling-Jost, Jill A.
AU - Reihlen, Markus
AU - Seckler, Christoph
N1 - 77 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) vom 04.08 bis 08.08.2017
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The question of how and why organizations fail has received considerable attention in literature and case studies constitute a substantial part of the research designs used. Yet, little academic work has been conducted to synthesize evidence from existing case studies on the processes of organizational failure. Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of 42 longitudinal cases studies, we identified four process archetypes of organizational failure: the disruption, the obedience, the illegitimacy, and the paradox track. We explore the relations between these four process archetypes by proposing a process taxonomy of organizational failure. Our process taxonomy extends current theory by suggesting more integrated process explanations and by identifying two rather overlooked patterns of organizational failure.
AB - The question of how and why organizations fail has received considerable attention in literature and case studies constitute a substantial part of the research designs used. Yet, little academic work has been conducted to synthesize evidence from existing case studies on the processes of organizational failure. Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of 42 longitudinal cases studies, we identified four process archetypes of organizational failure: the disruption, the obedience, the illegitimacy, and the paradox track. We explore the relations between these four process archetypes by proposing a process taxonomy of organizational failure. Our process taxonomy extends current theory by suggesting more integrated process explanations and by identifying two rather overlooked patterns of organizational failure.
KW - Management studies
KW - Organizational failure
KW - Process Perspective
KW - Qualitative meta-analysis
U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2017.13860abstract
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2017.13860abstract
M3 - Conference abstract in journal
VL - 2017
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
SN - 0065-0668
IS - 1
ER -