Powerful and Free: Intraorganizational Power and the Dynamics of Corporate Strategy
研究了组织权力结构如何影响公司战略的惯性或变革，发现子单位权力制度化导致惯性，而高管团队权力差异推动战略变革，通过对日本造船和机器人企业的多元化变化分析验证了理论。
The questions of how shifts occur between inertia and change and why only some organizations make strategic changes have received significant attention from scholars in strategy and organization theory. Here the horizontal and vertical dimensions of organizational power structures’ influence on the dynamics of corporate strategy are examined.The horizontal dimension of institutionalization of subunit power causes inertia, while the vertical dimension of power differences in the top management team causes strategic change. These effects hold for the simple magnitude of strategic changes, changes that break organizational momentum and changes following performance decline. Analysis of changes in the diversification of Japanese shipbuilding and robotics firms supports the theory.