scholarly journals Dynamic of the organisation and structural inertia

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
Christian Poncet
Keyword(s):  
Structural Inertia

Organizational Learning and Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 723-741
Author(s):  
Jieun You ◽  
Junghwan Kim ◽  
Doo Hun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Double Loop Learning ◽  
Structural Inertia ◽  
Learning And Change

This chapter discusses organizational learning as a strategic approach for organizational change. In the face of turbulent and uncertain environments, continuous involvement in organizational change is necessary. However, most organizations encounter resistance to change, thus fail to accomplish organizational change despite change efforts. Previous literature explains that resistance to change results from cognitive and psychological processes, social and power relationships, and organizational structural inertia. Given the findings from the previous research, organizational learning theories can provide strategic interventions to effectively deal with resistance and to achieve organizational change goals. The learning organization embrace learning activities – unlearning, experimentation, exploration, double-loop learning, and action learning - to develop the adaptability to environmental changes. This chapter suggests that HR/HRD should play a role in building the learning organization and facilitating organizational learning for change as a change agent.

The Policy of Whistleblowing in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
Abdulwahab Qudus ◽  
AbdulGafar Olawale Fahm
Keyword(s):  
Direct Methods ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Structural Inertia

One of the most direct methods of exposing corruption in corporate or public institutions is whistleblowing. Quite a number of countries, including Nigeria, have introduced a whistleblowing policy. Among its provisions is to deter corrupt behaviours and guide formal investigations into them. However, Nigeria still lags far behind in this respect, perhaps out of structural inertia in dealing with corruption cases. In this article, the author argues that Nigeria can benefit from the institutional, educational and spiritual framework embedded in whistleblowing in Islam through ‘amr bi-l-ma'rūf wa-naḥy ‘an al-munkar i.e., enjoining good and forbidding wrong. The article, through historical and descriptive approaches, explains the policy of whistleblowing from the Islamic perspective, hence, clarifying some Muslims misconceptions. This study, therefore, presents Islamic principles on the whistleblowing policy and explains some pivotal approaches to addressing whistleblowing policy in Nigeria.

Structural Inertia and Organizational Change

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Hannan ◽  
John Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Structural Inertia

A Classification of Structural Inertia Responses to Failure

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 10508
Author(s):  
Gavin M. Schwarz ◽  
Kuo-Pin Yang ◽  
Christine Chou
Keyword(s):  
Structural Inertia

When informality meets formality: evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun (Michelle) Yang ◽  
Michael J. Pisani
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
Structural Inertia ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to explore “what impact does competition from informal enterprises have on formal firms” within the Chinese economic and business environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for an exploratory study utilizing the cross-sectional survey data “2012 China Enterprise Survey” conducted by the World Bank. The survey is composed of approximately 200 business-related questions across the spectrum of business operations. In all, 2,700 privately owned Chinese firms are included in the logistic regression analysis. Findings Results show the impact of informal firm competition upon formal firms in China are influenced by geographical location, industry sector, ownership profile, governmental ownership, online presence and the extent of obeying labor regulations or the time spent in handling the governmental regulatory environment. There is a competitive and complementary simultaneous intertwined relationship between formal and informal economy. It occurs in a formal economy not fully divorced from the structural inertia of the planned economy as it transitions to a market-based economy. Practical implications This paper extended the assumption of institutional theory and presented it as a dynamic view of the evolution of organizations. It contributes by offering a simultaneous dual relationship between the formal and informal economy. It also adds one more potential feature of populations in the population ecology theory. Originality/value This exploratory paper empirically examines the impacts of informal sector enterprises on formal sectors firms in China and proposes a dual force effect of the informal economy to the formal economy given the current Chinese institutional environment. The study also provides a platform for further research on the interactions between the formal and informal sectors in emerging markets.

The Logic of Deliberate Structural Inertia

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin M. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Structural Inertia
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