Some unanticipated consequences of organizational restructuring

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: McKinley, W; Scherer, AG
• 署名单位: Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University; University of Konstanz; University of Erlangen Nuremberg
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259202
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 735-752
• 关键词: LAYOFF ANNOUNCEMENTS; Product innovation; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; performance; industry; IMPACT; MODEL; contingency; SENSEMAKING; environment

摘要

We explore two consequences of organizational restructuring that are unanticipated by managers. At the cognitive level of analysis, we propose that organizational restructuring hers 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.