Organizational Failure in the Aftermath of Radical Institutional Change

  • This paper focuses on the question of the extent to which the institutional founding environment affects organizational success after a radical institutional change. We analyse firms founded in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) that experienced the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990 and focus on how the institutional environment of their founding period influences their failure rates. Results show that organizational failure rates vary after institutional change due to differences in institutional founding conditions. This variation is influenced by the degree of (dis)similarity between the imprinted past and the present institutional context. Discussing the time-varying effect of institutional founding conditions, we contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of imprinting and organizational failure in situations of institutional change.

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Author: Simon OertelGND, Kirsten ThommesORCiDGND, Peter WalgenbachGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615622071
ISSN:1741-3044
Title of the source (English):Organization Studies
Document Type:Scientific journal article peer-reviewed
Language:English
Year of publication:2016
Volume/Year:37
Issue number:8
Number of pages:21
First Page:1067
Last Page:1087
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 5 Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft / FG ABWL, insbesondere Organisation und Unternehmensführung
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