The effects of CEO change on organizational distinctiveness

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17111
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba (2017); Yokohama National University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: Sato Hidenori 筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 准教授 (70588293)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 戦略的一貫性 / 組織アイデンティティ / 組織変革

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Organizations must change to adapt to changing environment. However, the organizational change may have negative impact on their strength. In this study, therefore, I focused on strategic consistency of organizations.
In previous studies, researchers emphasized the importance of strategic change to adapt to changing environment. In contrast to that, effects of strategic consistency were not explored enough. Based on the cases of Japanese firms, this study has suggested that those firms varied in strategic consistency and reconsidering the significance of strategic consistency will contribute to understanding of the mechanism of firm survival in dynamic environment.

Free Research Field

経営組織論