Leader driven organizational adaptation
Abstract
Purpose
Earlier research has identified adaptive leadership strategies and organizational culture as two key factors that influence a firm's adaptive capabilities. However, little is known about how leadership and organizational culture affect each other. Nor do the authors know how the combined effects of adaptive leadership and culture facilitates organizational adaptation over time. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap by using a co-evolutionary perspective to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected through informant interviews, observations and archival material.
Findings
Study findings reveal that leaders can enhance organizational adaptability by creating an appropriate context to guide the co-evolutionary interactions between their leadership strategies, organizational culture and employees towards the ongoing achievement of firm goals.
Originality/value
The study enhances the understanding of how leaders facilitate organizational adaptability, especially in a family business context.
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Citation
Seah, M., Hsieh, M.-H. and Huang, H.-Y. (2014), "Leader driven organizational adaptation", Management Decision, Vol. 52 No. 8, pp. 1410-1432. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-07-2013-0380
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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