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Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives

Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives
Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives
Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are ‘stamped’ on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately choose its future. Both theories offer dramatically different explanations behind an organization's capacity for change. IPO firms provide a unique context for exploring how imprinting forces interact with strategic choice factors to address organizational capacity for change as a firm moves from private to public firm status. Juxtaposing imprinting and strategic choice perspectives, we employ fuzzy set analysis to examine the multi‐level determinants of organizational capacity for change. Our cross‐national data reveal three effective configurations of organizational capacity for change within IPOs, and two ineffective configurations. Our results suggest that the antecedents of organizational capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms are non‐linear, interdependent, and equifinal.
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Judge, William Q.
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Hu, Helen W.
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Quttainah, Majdi
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Adegbite, Emmanuel
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Judge, William Q., Hu, Helen W., Gabrielsson, Jonas, Talaulicar, Till, Witt, Michael A., Zattoni, Alessandro, López-iturriaga, Félix, Chen, Jean Jingham, Shukla, Dhirendra, Quttainah, Majdi, Adegbite, Emmanuel, Luis Rivas, José and Kibler, Bruce (2015) Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives: Imprinting and strategic choice perspectives. Journal of Management Studies, 52 (4), 506-530. (doi:10.1111/joms.12121).

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Abstract

Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are ‘stamped’ on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately choose its future. Both theories offer dramatically different explanations behind an organization's capacity for change. IPO firms provide a unique context for exploring how imprinting forces interact with strategic choice factors to address organizational capacity for change as a firm moves from private to public firm status. Juxtaposing imprinting and strategic choice perspectives, we employ fuzzy set analysis to examine the multi‐level determinants of organizational capacity for change. Our cross‐national data reveal three effective configurations of organizational capacity for change within IPOs, and two ineffective configurations. Our results suggest that the antecedents of organizational capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms are non‐linear, interdependent, and equifinal.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 31 December 2014
Published date: 1 June 2015

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Local EPrints ID: 431831
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431831
ISSN: 0022-2380
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Author: William Q. Judge
Author: Helen W. Hu
Author: Jonas Gabrielsson
Author: Till Talaulicar
Author: Michael A. Witt
Author: Alessandro Zattoni
Author: Félix López-iturriaga
Author: Jean Jingham Chen
Author: Dhirendra Shukla
Author: Majdi Quttainah
Author: Emmanuel Adegbite
Author: José Luis Rivas
Author: Bruce Kibler

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