Reference
Bildstein, I., & Güldenberg, S. (2012). How Routinely Having a Look at the Jester’s Mirror Introduces the Missing Dynamic Component into Organizational Capabilies. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Strategic Management Conference - Strategy in Transition, Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic.
Publication type
Paper in Conference Proceedings
Abstract
The dilemma of how to integrate dynamic renewal into per se static organizational capabilities poses a fundamental challenge for strategy scholars. Capabilities can become maladaptive, when organizational action off the beaten track is needed. They then morph into rigidities, which reliably replicate anachronisms. Our paper contributes to overcoming this dark side of capabilities, by merging knowledge-managerial research findings with topical cognitive-collective insights from the realm of psychology. Sine qua non for not crossing the thin line between carving capabilities in stone, and vigilantly reacting to relevant change signals, is effective shared leadership. Pivotal here is the creation of a jester-like mindset in organizational members, which enables a culture, where it is safe to tell everybody some inconvenient truth. The resulting perpetual self-reflection resolves the capability-rigidityparadox.
Research
- How to Attract Experts to and how to Make Them Productive in Knowledge-based Organizations?
- PhD-Thesis, October 2008 until October 2013 (finished)
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Persons
Organizational Units
- Institute for Entrepreneurship
- Chair in International Management