Purpose The traditional dualism view regards stability and change as opposites and
separate, two essential but largely incompatible and mutually exclusive elements in an …

The article offers a theory of how leadership affects the implementation of management
reforms. The central premise of this theory is that leadership can have important but easy-to …

Strategy scholars have theorized that a firm's strategic leaders play an important role in firm
dynamic capabilities (DCs). However, little research to date has studied how leaders shape …

Business leaders naturally desire company strategy to be understood and accepted by
employees, in order to help ensure that the ongoing decisions and behaviours of employees …

Companies operate in ever faster and more abruptly changing environments. Due to the
global interconnectedness of markets and actors, changes in framework conditions often …

The relationship between managerial change and strategic change is a complex issue that
challenges our understanding of how firms react to their business environment. In this study …

Purpose The second major step in the development of the balanced scorecard was the
introduction of strategy maps. Although much has been written about the benefits of strategy …

This study examines firms' responses to performance assessments relative to multiple
aspiration levels. We argue that comparisons of performance to multiple aspiration levels …

Organizational agility is critical to the firms' survival and prospects in today's complex
environment. Although the firms' goal orientations regulate their efforts in response to market …

Purpose This paper aims to explore how changes in the coercive and enabling orientations
of the organizational rule system influence the attention managers pay to rules …