Strategic Renewal and the Interaction of Cumulative Stress and Inertia

• Main Authors: THOMAS, Howard, Huff, J. O., Huff, A. S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1992
• Subjects: Stress; inertia; renewal; strategic change; incrementalism; Business
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1855; https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250131006
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Strategic renewal is accomplished in large and small ways. This paper proposes a four phase characterization of how organizations move between state sustaining renewal and the more radical reconceptualizations that significantly alter organization activity. The argument juxtaposes inertia (or commit...