Change in the presence of fit: The rise, the fall, and the renaissance of Liz!Claiborne

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Siggelkow, N
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069418
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 838-857
• 关键词: PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM; organizational-change; performance; strategy; TRANSFORMATION; INNOVATION; responses; industry

摘要

A new framework that addresses how tight fit among a firm's activities affects the firm's ability to react to environmental changes is presented. As part of the framework, a new classification scheme for environmental changes is developed. I argue that fit-conserving change, which leaves the internal fit among a firm's activities intact yet decreases the appropriateness of the set of choices as a whole, poses a particularly difficult challenge for managers. A longitudinal case study of the fashion apparel company Liz Claiborne illustrates the framework.