Cascading organizational change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hannan, MT; Pólos, L; Carroll, GR
• 署名单位: Stanford University; Eotvos Lorand University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.5.463.16763
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 463-482
• 关键词: organizational change; cascades; ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY

摘要

This article develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on changes in an organization's architecture, depicted as a code system. It models the common process whereby an initial architectural change prompts other changes in the organization, generating a cascade of changes that represents the full reorganization. The main argument ties centrality of the organizational unit initiating a change to the total time that the organization spends reorganizing and to the associated opportunity costs. The central theorem holds that the expected deleterious effect of a change in architecture on the mortality hazard increases with viscosity and the intricacy of the organizational design.