Designing a Pattern Of the Causes and Consequences of Organizational Inertia

Kiyanpour, Shahrzad; Teimouri, Hadi; Mobasheri, Ali Asghar

doi:10.22054/jmsd.2023.71834.4260

Designing a Pattern Of the Causes and Consequences of Organizational Inertia

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Shahrzad Kiyanpour ¹

Hadi Teimouri ²

Ali Asghar Mobasheri ³

¹ Master's Student in Change Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

³ Ph.D Student in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/jmsd.2023.71834.4260

Abstract

Organizational inertia leads to the damage and inefficiency in organizational processes and then the incidence of serious obstacles in the direction of achieving goals at micro and macro levels. Today due to the possibility of this phenomenon occurring in various organizations, and its role as the most important factor limiting flexibility and preventing the organization from providing a timely reaction and response to daily environmental changes, the importance of deeper identification of the causes affecting the occurrence of this phenomenon and its consequences has doubled. Therefore, due to the lack of a unified and coherent model around the causes and consequences of organizational inertia, the present research aims to systematically review and qualitatively combine the findings of previous studies regarding the issue of inertia in the organization and formulate a single framework of the causes and consequences of the mentioned phenomenon. The results of the present applied research indicate that the causes of inertia in the organization can be studied and investigated in three individual, group and organizational dimensions and its consequences in two individual and organizational dimensions. based on the mentioned cases, at the end of the research, the conceptual model of the organizational inertia was developed and presented.

Keywords

Organizational Inertia

Causes

Consequences

Meta-Synthesis

Subjects

Organizational Behavior

AlHasnawi, H. H., & Abbas, A. A. (2020). Workplace Ostracism as a Mediating Variable in the Relationship between Paradoxical Leader Behaviors and Organizational Inertia. Organizacija, 53(2), 165-181. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/orga-2020-0011
AlKayid, K., Selem, K. M., Shehata, A. E., & Tan, C. C. (2022). Leader vision, organizational inertia and service hotel employee creativity: Role of knowledge-donating. Current Psychology, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-02743-6
Asano, A., & Eto, T. (2007). Organisational inertia in Japanese institutions. Journal of Asian Economics, 18(6), 915-933. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2007.07.008
Bench, S., & Day, T. (2010). The user experience of critical care discharges: a meta-synthesis studies of qualitative research. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 47(4), 487-499. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.11.013
Feng, M., Li, J. J., & Xiong, X. Y. (2022). Institutional Pressures, High-Performance Work Systems, and Marketability: The Moderating Role of Organizational Inertia. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 00218863221096164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863221096164
Fu, X., Luan, R., Wu, H. H., Zhu, W., & Pang, J. (2021). Ambidextrous balance and channel innovation ability in Chinese business circles: the mediating effect of knowledge inertia and guanxi inertia. Industrial Marketing Management, 93, 63-75.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.11.005
Huang, H. C., Lai, M. C., Lin, L. H., & Chen, C. T. (2013). Overcoming organizational inertia to strengthen business model innovation: An open innovation perspective. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 26 (6), 977-1002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-04-2012-0047
Godkin, L., & Allcorn, S. (2008). Overcoming organizational inertia: a tripartite model for achieving strategic organizational change. The Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 8 (1), 82-94. DOI: 1057/9781137394699_6
Gwet, K. .L (2014). Handbook of inter-rater reliability: The definitive guide to measuring the extent of agreement among raters. USA: Advanced Analytics LLC.
Liao, S. H. (2002). Problem solving and knowledge inertia. Expert Systems with Applications, 22, 21–31.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0957-4174(01)00046-X
Mikalef, P., van de Wetering, R., & Krogstie, J. (2021). Building dynamic capabilities by leveraging big data analytics: The role of organizational inertia. Information & Management, 58(6), 103412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2020.103412
Mikalef, P., Van de Wetering, R., & Krogstie, J. (2019). Big data enabled organizational transformation: the effect of inertia in adoption and diffusion. Germany/Berlin: Business Information Systems (BIS). DOI: 1007/978-3-319-93931-5_10
Palomino-Tamayo, W., & Timaná, J. S. (2022). Creating firm value, overcoming organizational inertia through the marketing value chain. Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, 35(1), 20-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ARLA-06-2021-0119
Putri, I. R. H., Angwar, T., & Padmalia, M. (2022). organizational inertia and organizational performance: family business context in indonesia. DeReMa (Development Research of Management). Jurnal Manajemen, 17(2), 162-185.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19166/derema.v17i2.4995
Ring, N., Jepson, R., & Ritchie, K. (2011). Methods of synthesizing qualitative research studies for health technology assessment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 27(4), 384-390. DOI: 10.1017/S0266462311000389
Rowe, F., Besson, P., & Hemon, A. (2017). Socio Technical inertia, dynamic capabilities and environmental uncertainty: senior management view and implications for organizational transformation. ECIS, 2(4). DOI: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/27
Sabuhari, R., Sudiro, A., Irawanto, D.W., & Rahayu, M. (2020). The effects of human resource flexibility, employee competency, organizational culture adaptation and job satisfaction on employee performance. Management Science Letters, 10(8), 1777-1786. DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2020.1.001
Sandelowski, M., & Barroso, J. (2007). Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative research. New York: Springer.
Sillic, M. (2019). Critical impact of organizational and individual inertia in explaining non-compliant security behavior in the Shadow IT context. computers & security, 80, 108-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2018.09.012
Warg, M., & Hans, S. (2022). How to Overcome Organizational Inertia by Shaping Institutions and Value Propositions: an Analysis of the Impact of Service-Catalogs. st RESER Conference, Fraunhofer IAO, Heilbronn.
Xie, X., Fang, L., Zeng, S., & Huo, J. (2016). How does knowledge inertia affect firms product innovation?. Journal of Business Research, 69(5), 1615-1620. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.027
Zhen, J., Cao, C., Qiu, H., & Xie, Z. (2021). Impact of organizational inertia on organizational agility: The role of IT ambidexterity. Information Technology and Management, 22(1), 53-65. DOI: 10.1007/s10799-021-00324-w
AghaZadeh, F. (2022). Investigating the impact of employee immovability on organizational inertia in Marand education and training, New Achievements in Humanities Studies, 5(51), 168-180.[In Persian]
Ameriyan, H., FahimiNezhad, A., Morsal, B., & Siavashi, M. (2023). Correlation of Managers’ Leadership and Organizational Inertia with the Mediating Role of Social loafing in the Employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. JHPM, 12(1), 81-94. DOI: http://jhpm.ir/article-1-1573-fa.html [In Persian]
Bayati, B., Soleymani, M., & Ahmadi, S. (2019). The effect of organizational inertia on organizational hypocrisy with the mediation of underwork and social burnout of employees (case study of Tehran Municipal Sports Organization). Organizational Behavior Management Studies in Sports, 6(22), 85-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30473/fmss.2019.47711.1985 [In Persian]
Chaharmahalizadeh, N. (2021). Investigating the effect of organizational inertia on organizational agility (case study: Shushtar Municipality). New Research Approaches in Management and Accounting, 5(18), 135-153. DOI: https://majournal.ir/index.php/ma/article/view/1072 [In Persian]
Doostar, M., Babazadeh, T., & Moradi, M. (2019). Examining the effect of learning on innovation with the moderating role of organizational inertia. Innovation and Creativity in Human Sciences, 9(2), 165-198.[ In Persian]
Ebrahimi, S.A. (2016). An introduction to organizational inertia and effective factors on it in organizations of public sector of Iran, Quarterly Journal of Public Organizations Management, 4(1), 91-108DOI: 20.1001.1.2322522.1394.4.0.6.7[In Persian]
JamaliRosht, S., & Radmard, S. (2020). Monitoring the role of cybernetic management functions in preventing organizational inertia with emphasis on the mediating role of knowledge sharing among the employees of the fiscal affairs organization of East Azerbaijan province. Management of Government Organizations, 8(4), 25-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30473/ipom.2020.49845.3894[In Persian]
Khashei, N., MohammadiNasab, A., & Mehdizadeh, E. (2016). An exploration of the relationship between organizational inertia with business model innovation and performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, from the perspective of open innovation. Organizational Culture Management, 14(4), 1111-1136. DOI: 10.22059/jomc.2016.60493[In Persian]
MomeniBadeleh, K., & Enayati, T. (2019). Stimulation of organizational inertia: identifying the dimensions and components of organizational inertia in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. Development of Education in Medical Sciences, 12(36), 60-71. DOI: http://ce.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-446-fa.html [In Persian]
MomeniBadeleh, K., Enayati, T., & Niazazari, K. (2019). Organizational inertia a barrier to effective evolution in the health system. Clinical Excellence, 9(1), 16-24. DOI: http://ce.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-446-fa.html [In Persian]
Rajaei, Z., & Asadzadeh, F. (2021). Investigating the Impact of Organizational Indifference on Organizational Inertia with Regard the Mediator Role of the Organizational Silence. Public Management Researches, 14(52), 277-301. DOI: 10.22111/jmr.2021.35653.5189 [In Persian]
Rastegar, A., Shoul, H., & Sharafi, V. (2017). The Role of the Performance Appraisal System on the Emergence of Organizational Hypocrisy: Organizational Climate as a Moderator. Organizational Behavior Studies Quarterly, 6(2), 27-50. DOI: 20.1001.1.23221518.1396.6.2.2.1[In Persian]
SeyedNaghavi, M. A., Pourbehroozan, A., & Ghorbanalizadeh, R. (2022). Organizational Inertia as a Barrier to Change: The Application of Grounded Theory to Understand Organizational Inertia. Organizational Culture Management, 19(2), 251-280. DOI: 10.22059/jomc.2020.298205.1007993[In Persian]
Tajdini, K., Ahmadian, A., & Matoofi, A. (2014). Investigating the relationship between strategic inertia and export performance: the case of exporting companies in Tehran province(Scientific article of the Ministry of Science). Productivity Management, 7(28), 33-49 DOI: 20.1001.1.27169979.1393.8.1.2.8 [In Persian]