UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIC CHANGE - THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHETYPES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: GREENWOOD, R; HININGS, CR
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256645
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 1052-1081
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY; management; performance; INNOVATION; population; ecology; systems; ORDER

摘要

We examined the concept of archetype, implicit in a number of contemporary approaches to the study of organizational design and change, Despite an emerging interest in archetypes, the concept has received inadequate investigation. The present article offers a basis for definition of the concept and sets down three assumptions, which we tested using data collected longitudinally from 24 organizations. We present a number of theoretical and methodological implications of the archetype approach to the study of organizational change.