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Legacy of the State: Prior Shared Experience and Survival of Spin-Offs From Restructured State Enterprises

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posted on 2019-02-07, 11:11 authored by O Suhomlinova, I Okhmatovskiy, L Tihanyi
Many organizations, especially in emerging economies, trace their origins to restructured state enterprises, and this study explores the implications of such origins for organizational adaptation to changing environmental conditions. We compare the activity choices and survival chances of spin-offs from restructured state enterprises with those of de novo organizations. We argue that prior shared experience of spin-offs’ managers and employees facilitates the redeployment of routines developed in parent state enterprises. This should predispose spin-offs to pursue familiar activities, but this choice is not completely predetermined, and its survival implications depend on the environmental conditions. Our empirical findings suggest that spinoffs from restructured state enterprises are less likely to engage in new activities than de novo organizations. However, those restructuring spin-offs that do engage in new activities before the regulatory regime shift significantly improve their survival chances after the shift. Moreover, we find that the detrimental effect of the regulatory regime shift and the beneficial effect of engaging in new activities are stronger for spin-offs from restructured state enterprises than for de novo organizations.

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Journal of Management

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Business

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Journal of Management

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SAGE Publications for Southern Management Association

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0149-2063

eissn

1557-1211

Acceptance date

2018-09-19

Copyright date

2018

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2019-02-07

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0149206318808601

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en

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