Managerial Succession and Strategic Change
Abstrakti
MANAGENIAL SUCCESSION AND STRATEGIC
CHANGE
Administrative Studies, vol. 9(1990): 1, 23-31
ln this paper different explanations for the
apparent connection between the appointment of
new managers and organizational reorientations
are outlined. These explanations range from
assuming that strategic and managerial change is
caused by the same factor(s); presuming that
environmental expectations may induce the newly
appointed leader to initiate change; maintaining
that the leadership change produces a change in
organizational commitment and beliefs that, in
turn, produces organizational reorientations; to
arguing that leadership succession gives the
organization additional resources that will enable
strategic changes to take place.
