Drivers of Organizational Change: A System Dynamics Analysis Integrating Environmental Determinism and Managerial Choice

✍ Scribed by Nicole Zimmermann

• Publisher: Gabler
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Edition: 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Accomplishing organizational change is a challenging managerial task. Often, organizations have difficulties in recognizing the need to change. Nicole Zimmermann investigates the barriers to, but also in particular the drivers of organizational change. She places special emphasis on a systemic perspective - using system dynamics modeling - and makes use of a case study of the move to electronic trading as the New York Stock Exchange. It is the first investigation of this transition from an organizational perspective. The causal and dynamic analysis reveals the complexity of change. From the case-specific as well as from a generic study, a structural model results that is able to explain how environmental and cognitive drivers, inertia and managerial attention interact.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Dynamics of Drivers
o f Organizational Change......Page 4
ISBN 9783834930514......Page 5
Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 18
List of Abbreviations......Page 20
A The Challenge of Triggering Change in Organizations......Page 22
B.I Incommensurable Drivers of Organizational Evolution......Page 30
B.II Reconciliation of Environmental Determinism and Managerial Choice......Page 54
B.III Cognition and Attention as Drivers and Restraints of Alteration......Page 70
B.IV Need for a Dynamic Feedback View of Organizational Change......Page 82
C The Phenomenon of Inertia and Change Exemplified in a Case Study of the New York Stock Exchange......Page 86
C.I A Method Mix for Studying Change in Organizations and Especially at the New York Stock Exchange......Page 88
C.II Reacting to Automation in the U.S. Securities Market......Page 101
C.III Structure and Behavior of Forces for Retention and Change......Page 121
C.IV Analyses of Model Structure and Behavior......Page 166
C.V Implications of the New York Stock Exchange’s Recast of Trading Systems......Page 181
D.I A Generic Model of Organizational Inertia and Change......Page 186
D.II Structural-Behavioral Analysis and Causal Theory......Page 203
D.III Possibilities of Managerial Intervention for Driving Change......Page 213
D.IV Joint Management of Leverage Points......Page 220
D.V A Feedback Theory of Organizational Inertia, Change, and Attention......Page 232
E Realization of Change in Organizations......Page 238
References......Page 248
Appendix......Page 278