The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...

We examine the contagion processes whereby practices originating in one organizational population spread into and diffuse within a second. We theorize that “endemic” innovations native to one population spread to other populations through two distinct forms of contagion. We test this...

In 1990 Alan Meyer, Geoffrey Brooks, and James Goes published a 2x2 framework for categorizing theories of change used by scholars in management and organization studies. This framework distinguished modes of change (continuous vs. discontinuous change), and levels of analysis...

In this introductory article to the Special Issue we make a case for the study of ‘Field-Configuring Events’ (FCEs). We begin with a discussion of the nature and character of FCEs. We next situate the study of FCEs in the context of ongoing research addressing the growth and evolution of...

The organizational change literature contains diverse characterizations of change processes with contradictory implications for strategic managers. Many inconsistencies are resolved by classifying models of organizational change according to the primary mode of change (continuous or...