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| Organizational Inertia: From a Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework |
| Cheng Lu, Su Jingqin, Lv Yibo |
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Abstract Ever since the 1980s, the issue of organizational inertia has been one of the core research topics in the area of strategic management. However, up till to now, scholars have not reached any agreement on "what is organizational inertia?" and "how does it impact organization performance?". And this nonconsensus hinders the further development of organizational inertia theory, reducing the theoretical and practical implications of the following relevant studies. Against this background, we do a systematic literature review on organizational inertial in this paper. First, we category the relevant studies on organizational inertia according to the term of "organizational ecology", "environment adaptation" and "the coupled view", and then we extract and purify the main points of each category of organization inertia studies. Second, we summarize and clarify the findings of every category on the aspects of concept definition, evaluation and effects on performance. At last, on the basis of our literature review, we construct the conceptual framework on organizational inertia in order to enlighten the future relevant research on the issue.
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