The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of how enabling perceptions of new management controls (MCs) can be fostered. We present a case study of an acquisition where the acquirer faces pressure to impose rigid controls on the acquired firm, who, in turn faces a massive...

A fundamental question is how firms adapt to environments that present multiple dimensions. Generally, the number of dimensions may exceed the limits of human attention. Subsequently, as organizations try to adapt to such environments they may be constrained to consider only a few dimensions. In...