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Adapting to environmental jolts.

A D Meyer

    Administrative Science Quarterly
    |November 7, 1982
    PubMed
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    Organizational adaptations to environmental jolts, like a doctors' strike, were studied. Ideology and strategy, not structure or slack resources, best predicted how hospitals responded to these unexpected events.

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    Area of Science:

    • Organizational Studies
    • Healthcare Management
    • Sociology of Organizations

    Background:

    • Organizations face environmental jolts, sudden disruptive events.
    • Hospitals experienced a doctors' strike, creating a natural experiment.
    • Adaptations to such events can appear diverse and anomalous.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To examine organizational adaptations to an environmental jolt.
    • To identify predictors of adaptation strategies in hospitals.
    • To understand the role of antecedent variables in organizational response.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of organizational adaptations within hospitals during a doctors' strike.
    • Assessment of antecedent variables: strategies, structures, ideologies, and slack resources.

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  • Comparative analysis to determine the primacy of different antecedent variables.

    • Main Results:

    • Adaptations to the doctors' strike were diverse but explainable by antecedent factors.
    • Ideological and strategic variables were stronger predictors of adaptation than structural variables or slack resources.
    • Environmental jolts, despite their disruptive nature, present opportunities for learning and change.

    Conclusions:

    • Organizational ideology and strategy are key drivers of adaptation to environmental jolts.
    • Environmental jolts are ambiguous events offering opportunities for organizational learning and change.
    • Hospitals can leverage unexpected disruptions for strategic and administrative evolution.