Leopards Sometimes Change Their Spots: How Firms Manage a Shift between Strategic Archetypes
Year: 2010
Type: preprint
Abstract: This article describes a comparative field study of Taiwan’s PC industry. Tracing the strategic evolution of six leading firms, I found their transformations followed different paths because of the different mechanisms upon which top management relied at different times. I compare the efficacy of three disparate mechanisms. One lesser-known process, termed “deep dive,” is shown to allow top management to induce changes in the informal organization ahead of changes in formal structures, and thereby ensuring undistorted experimentation with a new strategy before making irrevocable choices. This reverses the sequence of change often posited in the organizational design literature.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Howard H. Yu
Institution: Harvard University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1883302447