Stretching Concepts: The Role of Competing Pressures and Decoupling in the Evolution of Organization Concepts
Stretching Concepts: The Role of Competing Pressures and Decoupling in the Evolution of Organization Concepts
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延伸概念：竞争压力和解耦在组织概念演变中的作用
DOI：
10.1177/0170840612464748
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
B. Hillebrand
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作者：
Stefan Heusinkveld;J. Benders;B. Hillebrand
为了有助于理解组织概念的演变，本文重点介绍了顾问如何在最初流行的概念的成熟和衰退阶段应对竞争压力。管理顾问是重要的时尚引领者，但他们用来应对保持合法性、提高效率和区别于竞争对手的压力的实际策略仍不清楚。这种供应方的动态可能会影响组织概念的演变，并与理解管理知识如何在时尚繁荣和萧条中生存有关。使用来自14家咨询公司的32名顾问的访谈和印刷媒体数据，我们确定了7种应对策略，并展示了这些策略如何与多种压力相关联，并包括对概念演变的不同影响。我们认为，这种不同的反应是必不可少的，以更好地理解组织概念的演变，并打开了几个富有成效的研究方向。
To contribute to the understanding of the evolution of organization concepts, this article focuses on how consultants respond to competing pressures during the maturity and decline phases of an initially popular concept. Management consultants are important fashion setters, but the actual strategies they use to deal with the pressures to remain legitimate, increase efficiency and differentiate themselves from competitors remain unclear. Such supply-side dynamics likely influence how organization concepts evolve and are relevant for understanding how management knowledge may survive a fashion boom and bust. Using interview and print media data from 32 consultants from 14 consultancies, we identify seven response strategies, and show how these are associated with multiple pressures, and comprise different implications for the evolution of a concept. We argue that this variety of responses is essential to better understand the evolution of organization concepts and opens several fruitful research directions.