The myth of flexibility in organizational change

Autor:	Risto Tainio, Janne Tienari
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	Labour economics Deregulation Restructuring Strategy and Management Organizational change Top management Economics Commercial bank Applied Psychology Organizational flexibility Industrial organization
Zdroj:	Scandinavian Journal of Management. 15:351-384
ISSN:	0956-5221
Popis:	In this article we examine the complex nature of organizational flexibility. We question the myth of flexibility as exclusively a top management interpretation of constant adaptiveness to environmental change by exploring the various rigidities involved in a seemingly adaptive organization. Our long-term study of a major Finnish commercial bank under deregulation identified several dominant forms of temporal flexibility–rigidity configurations: formal rigidities, flexible rigidities, rigid flexibilities and defensive rigidities. These configurations were revealed by focusing on the structural tensions which emerge between different levels of management and on the different interpretations given by competing groups to the notion of “organizational flexibility” within a process of change.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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