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Reconcile the Paradox: Stability & Volatility Inclusive

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  • Zsuzsanna Járfás

    (Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Marketing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

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The paper answers the questions: How is it possible for mature and complex organizations to break out from their evolutionary trajectories? How do these changes take place on the micro level? The paper argues, that stability and volatility can be mutually inclusive. Stability is found to provide the structures, processes, and agentic templates for the organization to perceive change stimuli, to act on these and to roll out changes. The integration of social and formal structures and processes is found essential to effect changes. To conceptualize, path dependence theory is synthetized from a process perspective. The exploratory study is conducted by the author in the shipping industry of Japan, that brings the closed, complex, and hyper-stable Japanese business groups to focus, the core headquarters operation of which has been out of reach of scholars till now due to organizational-cultural boundaries. The findings are relevant to all organizations undergoing change in general, to complex and mature organizations locked in a state of pathological inertia in particular, and, most specifically, to Japanese business groups.

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Handle: RePEc:bco:mbrqaa::v:26:y:2023:p:24-37
DOI: 10.32038/mbrq.2023.26.02
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