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- Title
Punctuated equilibrium or ambidexterity: dynamics of incremental and radical organizational change over time.
- Authors
Uotila, Juha
- Abstract
Using formal simulation, I examine how environmental turbulence and complexity influence the temporal patterns of incremental and radical organizational change. In stable and simple environments, incremental change is found to be sufficient to keep pace with the task environment. Both turbulence and complexity are found to generate a punctuated equilibrium pattern but with different underlying mechanisms. When both turbulence and complexity are high, the punctuated equilibrium pattern is replaced by a dynamic type of ambidexterity. Implications for managing organizational change are discussed.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL change; ORGANIZATIONAL ambidexterity; PUNCTUATED equilibrium (Social science); CHANGE management; DECISION making in business
- Publication
Industrial & Corporate Change, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 1, p131
- ISSN
0960-6491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icc/dtx018