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When the parent imitates the child : strategic renewal through separation and reintegration of subsidiaries
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Friesl, Martin, Garreau, Lionel and Heracleous, Loizos Th. (2019) When the parent imitates the child : strategic renewal through separation and reintegration of subsidiaries. Strategic Organization, 17 (1). pp. 62-94. doi:10.1177/1476127018794850 ISSN 1476-1270.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127018794850
Abstract
This article shows how the separation and subsequent reintegration of a subsidiary becomes a source of strategic renewal for the parent company. We develop a process model that reveals how structural ambidexterity can generate “proximate isomorphism” that gives rise to parent level exploration and the parent’s gradual convergence with the subsidiary. This creates the conditions for reintegration, and ultimately, strategic renewal. We identify the triggers for proximate isomorphism as well as the mechanisms through which it unfolds. We draw on the longitudinal analysis of strategic renewal of Immochan between 2006 and 2018. Our findings contribute to extant research by developing the link between structural ambidexterity and strategic renewal and, particularly, by showing that proximate isomorphism acts as an integrating mechanism between the parent and the explorative unit.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Subsidiary corporations, Organizational change | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Strategic Organization | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1476-1270 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 62-94 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1476127018794850 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Friesl, M., Garreau, L., & Heracleous, L. (2019). When the parent imitates the child: Strategic renewal through separation and reintegration of subsidiaries. Strategic Organization, 17(1), 62–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127018794850. Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127018794850 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 February 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 February 2019 |
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