Resistance to Change and the Integration of Competitive and Organizational Strategy -- Michael Jensen and Joe Fuller

Breaking the Code of Change II, Rotman School of Management, August 2-3, 2000

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Michael Jensen, Harvard Business School, and Joe Fuller, Monitor Group.

Taught a class on organizational strategy, haven't bridged with Michael Porter.

Proposition: we organize everything for security.

Over 25 years, technological and political revolutions which make the markets much more intrusive into businesses.

Have thought about 3 limits to change:

1. Hidden commitments:

2. Invisible process:

3. Dualistic model: people are active in one of two models at any point of time.

Implication: Can't always count on people acting in their own self-interest.

New respect for markets: they are a control on this type of behavior, as new entrants will come in.

Can now use group devices to help on this weak brain: religion, law

Three principles to deal with this.

What he and Meckling didn't understand, when then did agency theory research:

Roger Martin: Why to horror movies sell so well? Training to strengthen.

Dimasios (Iowa) testing card games for money, one deck unfair and one fair.

 

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