This paper emphasizes the microfoundations of organizational agility and explores the interplay between new technologies, organizational structure and processes, leadership style and individual competencies. This interplay is analyzed in a case study conducted in an international information...

The information systems and operations management fields have exhaustively investigated the concept of agility. However, innovation management literature has almost neglected the topic, particularly agile R&D units, on which large industrial companies increasingly rely. To investigate this...

Extant research on organizational agility leans more toward flexibility in the face of environmental changes and dynamics. Although such a view is needed and seems plausible initially, it lacks a thorough theoretical underpinning that explains how agility is actually enacted endogenously in the...

Recent research highlights organizational agility as a central success factor for companies operating in highly volatile environments. Although agility is a dynamic concept by nature, little attention is devoted to its temporal dynamics. To address this gap, we conceptualize organizational...

This paper explores and revisits a systematic impediment to the more detailed examination of market-shaping capabilities as a sub-capability of organizational agility. By reconstructing underlying premises about the firm-environment relationship in which much of the extant literature on...

Einleitung -- Terminologische, konzeptionelle und theoretische Grundlagen -- Agilität/ agiles Management – Spannungsfelder und daraus resultierende Anforderungen an das Controlling (theoretische Erkenntnisse) -- Ergebnisse der qualitativen Erhebung -- Ergebnisdiskussion, Erklärungsansätze...

Do you ask yourself what this ‘agility hype’ is actually about and in what cases agility really creates benefits? Would you like to know how to make processes more agile? Do you fancy the idea of using agile methods but don't know how to explain it to your ISO 9001 auditor? This is the book...