An Aspirational View of Organizational Control Research: Re-invigorating Empirical Work to Better Meet the Challenges of 21st Century Organizations

LB Cardinal, M Kreutzer, CC Miller - Academy of Management …, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Organizational control is a key managerial function, and the focus of a great deal of research
in the management and organizations field. Our concern is that research has not kept pace …

Task contingencies in the curvilinear relationships between intergroup networks and initiative performance

C Lechner, K Frankenberger… - Academy of Management …, 2010 - journals.aom.org
This study examines the effects of three dimensions of network relations on the intergroup
level and the performance of strategic initiatives. Findings suggest inverted U-shaped …

Organizational control as antidote to politics in the pursuit of strategic initiatives

M Kreutzer, J Walter, LB Cardinal - Strategic Management …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In contrast to the contingency approach advanced by most prior work, we suggest a
complementary perspective on organizational control and its relationship with performance …

Formal and informal control as complement or substitute? The role of the task environment

M Kreutzer, LB Cardinal, J Walter… - Strategy …, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
The traditional view of control in organizations largely implies an “either-or” substitution
logic, as opposed to the complementarity logic implied in the more recent view of control …

The efficacy of organizational control interactions: External environmental uncertainty as a critical contingency

F Yang, GA Shinkle, M Goudsmit - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the efficacy of organizational control interactions in contexts with varying
levels of external environmental uncertainty. Specifically, we examine the contingent effect …

Agency controls and subsidiary strategic initiatives: The mediating role of subsidiary autonomy

EC Chatzopoulou, P Dimitratos, S Lioukas - International Business Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Prior studies examining the impact of organizational controls on subsidiaries' strategic
initiatives have to a large extent failed to find a significant direct association between the …

[HTML][HTML] Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change

S Kunisch, J Birkinshaw, M Boppel, K Choi - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We study strategic change as a visible and substantive action by examining the
circumstances under which firms launch corporate change programs. Drawing on prior …

13 Strategic initiatives: past, present and future

C Lechner, M Kreutzer - Handbook of research on strategy process, 2010 - elgaronline.com
The significance of strategic initiatives was aptly demonstrated in Nag et al.'s (2007)
article,'What is strategic management, really?'Based upon an inductive consensus analysis …

Walk the Talk: Rebalancing Control Configurations to Implement Sustainability Strategies

C Chochoiek, L Kortus, T Gutmann… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Companies urgently need effective approaches to manage the implementation process of
sustainability strategies while remaining adaptable in a rapidly changing world. Previous …

Building strategies: integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into core business processes

V Amin - 2020 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
Global sustainability challenges and the 2008 financial crisis have increased pressures on
banks to respond to social and environmental issues. Whilst the academic literature on CSR …