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Markus Kreutzer
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PublicationOrganizational Control As Antidote To Politics In The Pursuit Of Strategic InitiativesIn contrast to the contingency approach advanced by most prior work, we suggest a complementary perspective on organizational control and its relationship with performance. We argue that the simultaneous use of behavior and outcome control capitalizes on their respective advantages, and is therefore more effective than a sole reliance on either control type. Moreover, with organizational control seeking alignment between individual and organizational goals, the benefits of such a complementary approach may be more pronounced in a context characterized by high levels of organizational politics, or the pursuit of individual at the expense of organizational goals. Our analysis of strategic initiatives pursued by 184 European corporations provides support for both a complementary approach to organizational control and a contingency effect of organizational politics.Type: journal articleJournal: Strategic Management JournalVolume: 36Issue: 9DOI: 10.1002/smj.2306
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PublicationCoordinating Growth Initiatives in Multi-Unit FirmsRealising corporate growth remains a challenging task for most firms. In this paper, we examine how multi-unit corporations can effectively coordinate the evolution of their growth initiatives. Based upon research on coordination, we identify four ideal modes that corporations can adopt as a means to dealing with their growth ambitions. We label these four: agenda-setting, context-setting, directing and self-organising. We show how these coordination modes represent different options for corporate management and have different implications for the role split between top managers and managers on subsequent levels. We illustrate them by using primary and secondary data from 51 corporations based in Europe, North America and Asia. Each mode is connected with particular managerial challenges and is most effective in combination with specific context factors. Practitioners can use these insights to deliberately apply an appropriate coordination mode for their growth initiatives.Type: journal articleJournal: Long Range PlanningVolume: 43Issue: 1
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PublicationFormal and Informal Control as Complements or Substitutes? The Role of the Task Environment(Academy of Management, 2014-08-04)
;Cardinal, Laura ;Walter, JorgeThis study extends both traditional contingency approaches to organizational control as well as the fledgling, and largely conceptual, literature on more holistic control approaches by examining whether and to what extent formal and informal controls interact with each other in their influence on performance outcomes. In particular, we examine whether formal and informal controls act as complements or substitutes for each other, as well as whether such an interaction will be more or less pronounced in the context of higher degrees of exploration. Our empirical findings from an analysis of 184 strategic initiatives conducted by firms across a variety of industries provide support for the benefits of a complementary use of formal and informal controls, but also suggests that the degree of exploration at least partially moderates this effect, and thereby contribute to a more com-prehensive understanding of organizational control.Type: conference paper -
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PublicationInformal Control Modes and Initiative Performance : The Moderating Role of Supervisors' Political BehaviorIn this paper, we focus on informal control modes (composed of certain levels of informal input, behavior, and output control) utilized by top managers to steer growth initiative teams. We propose that the informal control mode utilized interacts with the existing level of supervisor's political behavior to influence initiative performance. Survey data on strategic growth initiatives collected from 201 corporations serve to test our hypotheses. Our results of moderated regression analysis highlight the importance of adapting the control mode to the specific supervisors' political behavior.Type: conference paper
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PublicationStrategic initiatives: past, present and future(Edward Elgar, 2011)
;Mazzola, PietroKellermanns, Franz-WilliIn this chapter, we display the current disciplinary knowledge on strategic initiatives and outline future research areas. We begin with definitions of the concept, its various types and classifications, and describe several research streams focusing on them. Then, we propose an organizing framework for elaborating research on strategic initiatives and discuss in detail its single elements. We close by outlining future research opportunities.Type: book section -
PublicationControl Configurations and Strategic Initiatives(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
;Sitkin, Sim ;Cardinal, LauraBijlsma-Frankema, KatinkaThis chapter builds on the extensive prior work on control and especially its recent development into a broader configurational approach and applies it to the initiative level. Based on the concept of fit, we propose that each of six types of strategic initiatives is likely to benefit from a distinct control configuration able to accommodate its needs.Type: book section