Strategy workshops and strategic change:Toward a theory of endogenous strategic change

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remainconsiderable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Using theconcept of strategic episodes, this paper develops an endogenous theory of change, where thesources of change are located in the organization itself. We argue that processes oforganizational reproduction lead to inconsistencies which manifest themselves as conflictingdemands on those working in the organization.[...]