Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Manuel Portugal Ferreira
Author-Email: portugal@estg.ipleiria.pt
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Title: Networks for change: How networks influence organizational change
Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on organizational change by examining organizations as social entities embedded in inter-organizational networks. In contrast to extant research that focuses on macro environment and internal factors to explain organizational change we put forth the social network surrounding the firm as a major driver of any change process. In specific we examine organization change as driven by the organizations? positions and relations in an interorganizational network. Our conceptual framework demonstrates that inter-organizational networks are important mid-level environmental factors that complement the macro-environment and internal organizational factors for the study of organizational changes. We conclude with a discussion on normative implications for organizations and avenues for future research.
Creation-Date: 2008-06-09
File-URL: https://globadvantage.ipleiria.pt/files/2008/06/working_paper-21_globadvantage.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 21
Classification-JEL: M0, M1
Keywords: organizational change, social networks
Handle: RePEc:pil:wpaper:21