In this study I analyze changes of an entire set of organizational of rules over time. I also analyze how the size of individual rules develops over time. The theoretical background for this study is based on the bureaucracy theory of Weber and his successors and on the considerations of the New...

This paper puts forward a contingency framework on business model dynamics. Examining three different forms of business model dynamics, namely business model evolution, adaptation and innovation, the author addresses the questions which environmental conditions prompt different types of business...

Organizations have sometimes been observed to reallocate control rights horizontally or vertically. Evidence suggests that they do this in response to certain kinds of internal or external challenges. Grounded in the contingency theory, this paper develops a theory of the vertical reallocation...