A Process Perspective on Organizational Failure: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis

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A Process Perspective on Organizational Failure : A Qualitative Meta-Analysis. / Habersang, Stefanie; Küberling-Jost, Jill A.; Reihlen, Markus et al.

In: Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017, No. 1, 2017.

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title = "A Process Perspective on Organizational Failure: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Management studies, Organizational failure, Process Perspective, Qualitative meta-analysis",
author = "Stefanie Habersang and K{\"u}berling-Jost, {Jill A.} and Markus Reihlen and Christoph Seckler",
note = "77 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) vom 04.08 bis 08.08.2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.5465/ambpp.2017.13860abstract",
language = "English",
volume = "2017",
journal = "Academy of Management Proceedings",
issn = "0065-0668",
publisher = "Academy of Management (Briarcliff Manor, NY) ",
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TY - JOUR

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

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