Purpose This study aims to elucidate reference points and organizational identity in letters to
shareholders (LTSs) of publishing companies and develops propositions on their relation to …

Research Summary: What drives middle managers to search for new strategic initiatives and
champion them to top management? This behavior—labeled divergent strategic behavior …

Data from a Fortune 500 retailer suggest that managers tell strategically ambiguous,
interwoven narratives about how an organization changes and how it remains the same …

Purpose This study investigates how a firm's regulatory focus (ie promotion and prevention
foci) affects growth-and efficiency-oriented strategic change, highlighting the role of …

Performance feedback theory has been recognized as a generative theory in organization
and management studies that explains why, when, and how organizations initiate or …

How can business leaders ensure that their organizations are able to meet rising customer
expectations, deal with ever increasing regulatory demands, and anticipate and offset …

Purpose Companies change their organizations continually. When such a change follows a
change in company strategy, employees understand why it happens. However, organization …

During periods of strategic change, maintaining the congruence between new
configurations of resources and activities (strategic investments) and how these new …

Discussions of strategic change generally assume that managers strive to break free from
the constraints of their organization's past so that they can forge ahead into the future …

By analyzing a case study of organizational decision making at a large research university,
this article argues that the agency to make a difference within organizations—to effect …