Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change: The Effects of Family Influence and Organizational Identity (Familienunternehmen und KMU)

Adaptation to discontinuous technological change constitutes a major, yet vincible challenge for established companies. This book reveals crucial differences between the challenges that family-owned and managed firms face as compared to non-family firms. Series of case studies in the German retailing and book publishing industries illustrate those differences. Empirical evidence as presented in the book further shows how organizational identity affects whether and in what way firms adapt to radical shifts in their environment. Adaptation to discontinuous technological change constitutes a major, yet vincible challenge for established companies. Nadine Kammerlander reveals crucial differences between the challenges that family-owned and managed firms face as compared to non-family firms. Series of case studies in the German retailing and book publishing industries illustrate those differences. Empirical evidence further shows how organizational identity affects whether and in what way firms adapt to radical shifts in their environment. Der Inhalt · Discontinuous Technological Change · Familiy Businesses and Familiy Influence · Empirical Evidence on how Family Influence and on how Organizational Identity Affects Organization Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change Die Zielgruppen · Researchers and students in the fields of management, entrepreneurship, strategy and family businesses · Owners and managers of family businesses as well as consultants of family firms Die AutorIn Dr. Nadine Kammerlander wrote der dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Björn Ivens at the Chair of Marketing at the University of Bamberg. She works as a post-doc researcher at the Center for Family Business, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. About the Editors The series Familienunternehmen und KMU is edited by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack, Prof. Dr. Andrea Calabrò, Prof. Dr. Hermann Frank, Prof. Dr. Franz W. Kellermanns Ph.D. and Prof. Dr. Thomas Zellweger "Adaptation to discontinuous technological change constitutes a major, yet vincible challenge for established companies. Nadine Kammerlander reveals crucial differences between the challenges that family-owned and managed firms face as compared to non-family firms. Series of case studies in the German retailing and book publishing industries illustrate those differences. Empirical evidence further shows how organizational identity affects whether and in what way firms adapt to radical shifts in their environment. Der Inhalt · Discontinuous Technological Change · Familiy Businesses and Familiy Influence · Empirical Evidence on how Family Influence and on how Organizational Identity Affects Organization Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change Die Zielgruppen ·Researchers and students in the fields of management, entrepreneurship, strategy and family businesses · Owners and managers of family businesses as well as consultants of family firms Die AutorIn Dr. Nadine Kammerlander wrote der dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Björn Ivens at the Chair of Marketing at the University of Bamberg. She works as a post-doc researcher at the Center for Family Business, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. About the Editors The series Familienunternehmen und KMU is edited by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack, Prof. Dr. Andrea Calabrò, Prof. Dr. Hermann Frank, Prof. Dr. Franz W. Kellermanns Ph.D. and Prof. Dr. Thomas Zellweger." -- Library of Congress Adaptation to discontinuous technological change constitutes a major, yet vincible challenge for established companies. Nadine Kammerlander reveals crucial differences between the challenges that family-owned and managed firms face as compared to non-family firms. Series of case studies in the German retailing and book publishing industries illustrate those differences. Empirical evidence further shows how organizational identity affects whether and in what way firms adapt to radical shifts in their environment. Der Inhalt· Discontinuous Technological Change· Familiy Businesses and Familiy Influence· Empirical Evidence on how Family Influence and on how Organizational Identity Affects Organization Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change Die Zielgruppen· Researchers and students in the fields of management, entrepreneurship, strategy and family businesses· Owners and managers of family businesses as well as consultants of family firms Die AutorInDr. Nadine Kammerlander wrote der dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Björn Ivens at the Chair of Marketing at the University of Bamberg. She works as a post-doc researcher at the Center for Family Business, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. About the EditorsThe series Familienunternehmen und KMU is edited by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack, Prof. Dr. Andrea Calabrò, Prof. Dr. Hermann Frank, Prof. Dr. Franz W. Kellermanns Ph. D. and Prof. Dr. Thomas Zellweger Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Introduction....Pages 1-14 Theoretical Background....Pages 15-59 Theorizing—Towards a Conceptual Framework of Family Influence and Adoption of Discontinuous Technological Change....Pages 61-99 Empirical Evidence on how Family Influence Affects Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change....Pages 101-171 Empirical Evidence on how Organizational Identity affects Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change....Pages 173-259 Summary....Pages 261-274 Back Matter....Pages 275-334