The paradox of success: An archival and a laboratory study of strategic persistence following radical environmental change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Audia, PG; Locke, EA; Smith, KG
• 署名单位: University of London; London Business School; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/1556413
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 837-853
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE; MANAGERIAL DISCRETION; performance; MODEL; inertia; CONSEQUENCES; deregulation; antecedents; feedback; momentum

摘要

An archival study of the airline and trucking industries over a ten-year period and a laboratory study revealed that greater past success led to greater strategic persistence after a radical environmental change, and such persistence induced performance declines. The laboratory study also demonstrated that dysfunctional persistence is due to greater satisfaction with past performance, more confidence in the correctness of current strategies, higher goals and self-efficacy, and less seeking of information from critics.