The intersection of organizational identity, knowledge, and practice: Attempting strategic change via knowledge grafting

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nag, Rajiv; Corley, Kevin G.; Gioia, Dennis A.
• 署名单位: University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 821-847
• 关键词: Capabilities; image; performance; SENSEMAKING; relevance; ambiguity; PARADOX; inertia

摘要

We investigated the attempt of a high-technology R&D organization to transform into a market-oriented organization by grafting new, nontechnological knowledge. The intended strategic transformation did not succeed for reasons with wide implications for theory and research. Our findings suggest that the intersection of organizational identity, knowledge, and practice hindered the development of the new knowledge and undermined the broader strategic transformation effort itself. The failure of the graft revealed a previously underrecognized relationship between identity and knowledge that manifested itself in organization members' efforts to preserve the collective practices that characterized how they used knowledge in accomplishing their work.