Dominant Ideologies, Strategic Change, and Sustained Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doug A Stace (Centre for Corporate Change, Australian Graduate School of Management, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.), Doug Stace (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 553-570 |
| Publication date | 1996-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872679604900502 |
| OpenAlex | W2156119569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
Strategies for organizational change which are successful in one business era, and in one culture, may not necessarily be successful in another. Yet the evidence is that powerful espoused ideologies about how best to effect change often live on within organizations, well beyond their capacity to help sustain positive performance. The espoused ideal approach to change becomes a myth which clouds the ability of managers to analyze their environment incisively and to move against the prevailing logic of change in the organization. It is suggested in this paper that often the best moves in organizational change may be countercyclical-against the preferred ideologies of change in the organization. Managers therefore need good contingency maps and models of change, rather than fixed ideologies and recipes, and the courage to move against the trend. This is made all the more difficult by researchers and management writers, who describe, espouse, and normalize dominant, preferred "best practice" ideas of change without adequate reference to the changing business environment of the organization, or to the cultural specificity of their theories. It is a case of when "best espoused practice" may be worst practice
Best practice · Business · Business administration · Business environment · Change management (ITSM · Contingency · Contingency theory · Courage · Economics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Ideology · Management · Organizational change · Organizational culture · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing · Organizational Learning and Leadership
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2014 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |