Midi de la recherche SIO avec Karl Werder

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Le Département de systèmes d’information organisationnels vous invite à une présentation de Karl Werder, de l’Université de Cologne, qui portera sur son article «Is it referential? A meta-analysis of organizational agility and performance».

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Résumé

Is it referential? A meta-analysis of organizational agility and performance

International crises and continuous transformations require organizations to develop and maintain agility—an organization’s ability to sense and respond to changes—to swiftly adjust to and seize opportunities. However, developing agility is costly, and agility itself is context-sensitive. Hence, we suggest that agility assessment is important and depends on the manager’s reference point and cognition. We develop the concept of referentiality to theorize that self-referentiality reduces managers’ uncertainty when assessing their organizations’ operational adjustment agility while comparative-referentiality reduces uncertainty when assessing market capitalizing agility. To test this theory, we performed a meta-analysis of 109 independent samples and a total sample size of 23,199 individual observations. The results largely support our theory. The study contributes to management research in three ways: i) by developing and conceptualizing the notion of referentiality for agility, ii) by explaining differences in managerial cognition through comparison processes used by managers for organizational capability assessment, and iii) by showing the importance of referentiality for the performance implications of agility. We discuss important implications for future research on agility and other organizational capability-based research.