Some Unanticipated Consequences of Organizational Restructuring
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In: Academy of Management Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, 01.10.2000, p. 735-752.
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T1 - Some Unanticipated Consequences of Organizational Restructuring
AU - McKinley, William
AU - Scherer, Andreas Georg
PY - 2000/10/1
Y1 - 2000/10/1
N2 - We explore two consequences of organizational restructuring that are unanticipated by managers. At the cognitive level of analysis, we propose that organizational restructuring has the unanticipated consequence of producing cognitive order for top executives, and at the environmental level, organizational restructuring has the unanticipated consequence of contributing to long-term environmental turbulence. Both feed back to promote further organizational restructuring, making restructuring a self-reinforcing loop. We derive formal propositions from this theoretical framework, discuss issues in testing the propositions, and specify implications for future theory building and management practice.
AB - We explore two consequences of organizational restructuring that are unanticipated by managers. At the cognitive level of analysis, we propose that organizational restructuring has the unanticipated consequence of producing cognitive order for top executives, and at the environmental level, organizational restructuring has the unanticipated consequence of contributing to long-term environmental turbulence. Both feed back to promote further organizational restructuring, making restructuring a self-reinforcing loop. We derive formal propositions from this theoretical framework, discuss issues in testing the propositions, and specify implications for future theory building and management practice.
KW - Management studies
KW - CORPORATE reorganizations
KW - Organizational Behavior
KW - EXECUTIVES
KW - SOCIAL policy
KW - Competition
KW - financial performance
KW - Diffusion of Innovation
KW - Social action
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034335473&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/AMR.2000.3707703
DO - 10.5465/AMR.2000.3707703
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 25
SP - 735
EP - 752
JO - Academy of Management Review
JF - Academy of Management Review
SN - 0363-7425
IS - 4
ER -