Modeling the dynamics of strategic fit: a normative approach to strategic change

By Edward J. Zajac, Matthew S. Kraatz, Rudi K. F. Bresser. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Resource fit in digital transformation (2011, background): “From an external perspective, when a strategic fit, match, or congruence exists between a firm’s strategy and environmental or organizational contingencies, it can increase the firm’s competitive advantage and lead to better business performance (Zajac et al. 2000).”
Explaining Change: Theorizing and Testing Dynamic Mediated Longitudinal Relationships (2010, background): “…the mediational paths are stable over time or are subject to change, thus addressing the issue of the dynamics of the mediated relationship over time—precisely as hypothesized in numerous theories (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Latham & Locke, 1991; Lewicki & Bunker, 1996; Zajac et al., 2000).”
Top management team demographic characteristics, business strategy, and firm performance in the US airline industry: The role of managerial discretion (2008, methodology): “ROA is measured as net income divided by total firm assets and is commonly used as a measure of profitability in organizational research ( Zajac et al. , 2000”
Dynamic Balancing of Exploration and Exploitation: The Contingent Benefits of Ambidexterity (2018, background): “This special breed of ambidextrous ﬁrms not only beneﬁts from exploration and exploitation’s mutually enabling forces (Farjoun 2010) but also reaps the returns from dynamic alignment with their shifting contexts (Zajac et al. 2000).”
Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice (2002, neutral): “March, 1981; Nelson and Winter, 1982; Sastry, 1997; Zajac et al., 2000).”
Institutional Transitions and Strategic Choices (2003, background): “However, failure to appreciate the institutional changes will make a previous fit obsolete under the new circumstances (Zajac et al., 2000).”
When do Dynamic Capabilities Lead to Competitive Advantage? The Importance of Strategic Fit (2018, positive): “…direction by developing a configurational theoretical framework predicting combinations of dynamic capabilities, environmental factors, and organizational factors that lead to competitive advantage, underpinned by the concept of strategic fit (Ginsberg and Venkatraman, 1985; Zajac et al., 2000).”
Competitive dynamics, strategic consistency, and organizational survival (2009, background): “…over time, the optimal level of consistency fills somewhere between being fully consistent with the past (no change in direction or position) on the one hand, and being fully adaptive with environmental change (changing everything) on the other (cf. Hambrick and D’Aveni, 1988; Zajac et al., 2000).”