<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Employing the lens of institutional entrepreneurship to help understand the logic of organizational change management, we conduct an analysis of the impact of Appreciative Inquiry® in a multi-unit division of a large, university-based health system. Our results indicate that, although there may have been some marginal impact in temporarily reducing an observed decline in employee commitment indicators, the program failed to sustain positive impacts over the longer term. Implications for the study of organizational change as the action of institutional entrepreneurs are briefly discussed.</p></abstract>

Employing the lens of institutional entrepreneurship to help understand the logic of organizational change management, we conduct an analysis of the impact of Appreciative Inquiry® in a multi-unit division of a large, university-based health system. Our results indicate that, although there may have been some marginal impact in temporarily reducing an observed decline in employee commitment indicators, the program failed to sustain positive impacts over the longer term. Implications for the study of organizational change as the action of institutional entrepreneurs are briefly discussed.

Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health Management: A Survey Experiment on Appreciative Inquiry®

Studies in Business and Economics

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Employing the lens of institutional entrepreneurship to help understand the logic of organizational change management, we conduct an analysis of the impact of...

Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health Management: A Survey Experiment on Appreciative Inquiry®

Published Online: May 16, 2019

Page range: 34 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2019-0003

Keywords
Institutions, entrepreneurship, organizational change, Appreciative Inquiry®, survey experiments

© 2019 Gregory Dempster et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health Management: A Survey Experiment on Appreciative Inquiry®

Published Online: May 16, 2019

Page range: 34 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2019-0003

KeywordsInstitutions, entrepreneurship, organizational change, Appreciative Inquiry®, survey experiments

© 2019 Gregory Dempster et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Institutions, entrepreneurship, organizational change, Appreciative Inquiry®, survey experiments