Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are ‘stamped’ on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately choose its future. Both theories offer dramatically different explanations behind an organization’s capacity for change. IPO firms provide a unique context for exploring how imprinting forces interact with strategic choice factors to address organizational capacity for change as a firm moves from private to public firm status. Juxtaposing imprinting and strategic choice perspectives, we employ fuzzy set to examine the multi-level determinants of organizational capacity for change. Our cross-national data reveals three effective configurations of organizational capacity for change within IPOs, and two ineffective configurations. Our results suggest that the antecedents of organizational capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms are nonlinear, interdependent, and equifinal.

Configurations of Capacity for Change in Entrepreneurial Threshold Firms: Imprinting and Strategic Choice Perspectives / Judge, William Q.; Hu, Helen W.; Gabrielsson, Jonas; Talaulicar, Till; Witt, Michael A.; Zattoni, Alessandro; Lopez Iturriaga, Felix; Chen, Jean Jingham; Shukla, Dhirendra; Quttainah, Majdi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Rivas, Jose Luis; Kibler, Bruce. - In: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 0022-2380. - 52:4(2015), pp. 506-530. [10.1111/joms.12121]

Configurations of Capacity for Change in Entrepreneurial Threshold Firms: Imprinting and Strategic Choice Perspectives

ZATTONI, ALESSANDRO;
2015

Abstract

Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are ‘stamped’ on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately choose its future. Both theories offer dramatically different explanations behind an organization’s capacity for change. IPO firms provide a unique context for exploring how imprinting forces interact with strategic choice factors to address organizational capacity for change as a firm moves from private to public firm status. Juxtaposing imprinting and strategic choice perspectives, we employ fuzzy set to examine the multi-level determinants of organizational capacity for change. Our cross-national data reveals three effective configurations of organizational capacity for change within IPOs, and two ineffective configurations. Our results suggest that the antecedents of organizational capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms are nonlinear, interdependent, and equifinal.
2015
imprinting theory, strategic choice theory, organizational capacity for change, fuzzy set analysis, IPO firms
Configurations of Capacity for Change in Entrepreneurial Threshold Firms: Imprinting and Strategic Choice Perspectives / Judge, William Q.; Hu, Helen W.; Gabrielsson, Jonas; Talaulicar, Till; Witt, Michael A.; Zattoni, Alessandro; Lopez Iturriaga, Felix; Chen, Jean Jingham; Shukla, Dhirendra; Quttainah, Majdi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Rivas, Jose Luis; Kibler, Bruce. - In: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 0022-2380. - 52:4(2015), pp. 506-530. [10.1111/joms.12121]
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