Organizational adaptation is a topic that has received only limited and fragmented theoretical treatment. Any attempt to examine organizational adaptation is difficult, since the process is highly complex and changeable. The proposed theoretical framework deals with alternative ways in which...

Organizational fields undergo upheavals. Shifting industry boundaries, new network forms, emerging sectors, and volatile ecosystems have become the stuff of everyday organizational life. Curiously, profound changes of this sort receive scant attention in organization theory and research....

Participants in the Organizational Design Community’s 2013 Annual Conference faced the challenge of “making organization design knowledge actionable.” This essay summarizes the opinions and insights participants shared during the conference. I reflect on these ideas, connect them to recent...

Organizational decisions provide conceptual playing fields wherein scientists adhering to rival theories based on different metaphors skirmish indecisively. Organizational decisions, however, are also empirical arenas wherein practitioners espousing discordant theories-in-use reconcile their...

How have theory and research in strategy contributed to the broader domain of management? A survey of prominent researchers in strategy and adjacent fields suggests that the answer depends on how "strategy" is defined. Modest and incremental contributions are evident when strategy is defined as...

We draw on complexity theory to explain the emergence of a new organizational collective, and we provide a much-needed empirical test of the theory at the collective level of analysis. Taking a case study approach, we use four dynamics of emergence posited by complexity theory’s dissipative...

Mahalo is a Hawaiian word connoting gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, and respect. Management scholars should be full of mahalo for each other, because we share exceptional educations and opportunities to think, write, and teach about organizations and management. Mahalo was the theme of...

We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are “in irons” — stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad...

We build theory on the process of collective identity resurrection through a qualitative study investigating how community members reenergized a valued community identity following years of decline. Our findings suggest a recursive model of identity resurrection, in which community leaders...

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches public health systems around the world, the role of hospital emergency departments has never been more important. Whether people are acutely ill with symptoms from coronavirus or from other illnesses and injuries – such as heart attacks, strokes, or trauma...