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Adaptation or Persistence? Emergence and Revision of Organization Designs in New Ventures

Author(s)
Oliver Alexy, Katharina Anna Pötz, Phanish Puranam, Markus Georg Reitzig
Abstract

How organization designs evolve between adaptation to changing conditions and the pressures toward persistence of the designs adopted at founding remains an understudied phenomenon. To fill this lacuna, we conducted a longitudinal, multicase study of eight young ventures. We find that, in these ventures, specific organization design solutions changed frequently, triggered by various internal and external developments, although the changes were typically incremental and myopic. However, the more abstract principles of design, captured in the founders’ logics of organizing, were less amenable to change. This explains why observations of imprinting effects in logics of organizing may be consistent with observations of dynamic change to organization designs.

Organisation(s)
Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
External organisation(s)
INSEAD Asia Campus, Technische Universität München, Österreichisches Parlament
Journal
Organization Science
Volume
32
Pages
1391-1596
ISSN
1047-7039
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1431
Publication date
2020
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
502052 Business administration
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/adaptation-or-persistence-emergence-and-revision-of-organization-designs-in-new-ventures(8b3e5510-eb7d-4dc5-b119-c2807046d4cb).html