Impact of organizational inertia on organizational agility: the role of IT ambidexterity

Zhang, Jie; Cao, Cejun; Qiu, Hanguang; Xie, Zongxiao

doi:10.1007/s10799-021-00324-w

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“…The support of new processes built through exploration coincides with organizations' entrepreneurial orientation. In fact, due to organizational inertia, exploration is strongly resisted in organizations with deep-rooted experience [62]. A company with strong capabilities in its current field may rationally reduce its exploratory behavior due to complacency, incompatible technological paths, and cost considerations [63,64].…”

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Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Lead to Successful Sustainable Innovation? The Evidence from Chinese Environmentally Friendly Companies

2021

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This research examines the linkage between entrepreneurial orientation and sustainable innovation. Research shows that the effects of entrepreneurial orientation on the exploitation and exploration of sustainable innovation are significantly positive, whereby absorptive capacity acts in a significant mediating role. The interaction between entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity helps organizations overcome organizational inertia and strengthen the sustainability of innovation. By introducing the absorptive capacity theory and the view of organizational inertia, we have conducted empirical research on 392 Chinese environmentally friendly companies that have passed China’s national high-tech enterprise certification. We verified the relevant hypotheses in our framework in a structural model analysis using Mplus. To further look at the interaction terms of potential and realized absorptive capacity, we used PROCESS in SPSS to evaluate the conditional effects of absorptive capacity on coefficient paths between entrepreneurial orientation and the two types of innovation. The results show that entrepreneurial orientation improves the absorptive capacity of organizations, thereby promoting their sustainable innovation. Furthermore, based on the theory of sustainable innovation, we proved the positive impact of realized and potential absorptive capacity on the exploitation and exploration of sustainable innovation. Organizations could balance exploitation and exploration to implement sustainable innovation by adjusting their potential and realized absorptive capacities. Our results can help environmentally friendly organizations adjust the combination of entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity to overcome organizational inertia, manage exploitation and exploration, and implement sustainable innovation.

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Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Lead to Successful Sustainable Innovation? The Evidence from Chinese Environmentally Friendly Companies

2021

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“…Furthermore, consistency in the organization’s functions and forms keeps the change process moving forward or expanding (Stieglitz et al, 2016 ). Organizational inertia is a barrier to business growth and change that can positively influence an organization’s expansion (Gilbert, 2005 ; Zhen et al, 2021 ). Inertia in the organization, for example, prevents it from implementing the processes, techniques, and procedures in place (Wang et al, 2015 ).…”

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“…According to OIT theory, an organization’s internal inertia might impede it from responding to changes in the external environment on time and engaging in reforms (Gilbert, 2005 ). The stance of inertia provides a stable sense of stable environmental situations (Zhen et al, 2021 ). When organizational capacities become more rigid, most successful businesses can collapse.…”

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Leader vision, organizational inertia and service hotel employee creativity: Role of knowledge-donating

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This paper presents a conceptual model reflecting relationships between visionary leadership and service employee creativity through organizational inertia and knowledge-donating behavior. The research sample consists of 423 employees of 21 four-star hotels in Egypt. The PLS-SEM results revealed that service employee creativity is enhanced when they realize their leaders have visions for the future, are capable of overcoming organizational inertia, along with keeping up with simultaneous changes. The results revealed that this behavior dampens the negative relationship between visionary leadership and organizational inertia. The theoretical and practical implications of the extracted results are discussed. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-02743-6.

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“…Besson and Rowe [35] define inertia as the degree of stickiness during an organizational transformation. More recent organizational inertia studies have shown that the introduction of digital technologies can also result in stickiness [36,37]. Our use of the term stickiness is closely related to the concept of organizational inertia in digital transformations, which refers to inertial forces that oppose change.…”

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Stickiness Impediments in Digital HRM

Naidoo¹,

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2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Realizing optimal value from digital HRM is a major challenge for most firms. This research adopts a practice lens to investigate how traditional HRM practice elements can constrain digital HRM practices. Findings from an interpretive case study suggest that constrained digital HRM practices emerge because employees and managers are embedded in sticky traditional work practices and not primarily because they are unwilling to adopt digital technologies. Conventional wisdom suggests that the quality of the digital HRM, meeting end-user performance expectations, and managing resistance to change can improve suboptimal digital practices. We propose that digital HRM transformation efforts should change outdated routines rather than focus only on technology improvements and individual behavioral change. The authors propose a model that explains stickiness in digital HRM practices and offers recommendations for HR practitioners to reduce stickiness.

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Impact of organizational inertia on organizational agility: the role of IT ambidexterity

Cited by 36 publications

References 55 publications

Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Lead to Successful Sustainable Innovation? The Evidence from Chinese Environmentally Friendly Companies

Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Lead to Successful Sustainable Innovation? The Evidence from Chinese Environmentally Friendly Companies

Leader vision, organizational inertia and service hotel employee creativity: Role of knowledge-donating

Stickiness Impediments in Digital HRM

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