IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-01787366.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

When the Parent Imitates the Child: Renewal through the Separation and Re-integration of a Subsidiary

Author

Listed:
  • Martin Friesl

    (LUMS - Lancaster University Management School - Lancaster University)

  • Lionel Garreau

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Loizos Heracleous

    (WBS - Warwick Business School - University of Warwick [Coventry])

Abstract

This paper investigates how structural ambidexterity may lead tostrategic renewal of the focal firm. Prior research has emphasized thelink between sequential ambidexterity and renewal. However, howrenewal may actually be accomplished through ‘structural' ambidexterityis not well understood. We draw on the longitudinal analysis of theseparation and subsequent re-integration of a business unit. We explorethe process through which the separation and reintegration of activitiestook place, which enable us to shed on light on the way this companyachieved strategic renewal. The temporary existence of the subsidiaryis conceptualized as a proximate isomorphic pressure, which is the coremechanism of this renewal. We contribute to the ambidexterity literatureas well as research on strategic renewal.

Suggested Citation

  • Martin Friesl & Lionel Garreau & Loizos Heracleous, 2016. "When the Parent Imitates the Child: Renewal through the Separation and Re-integration of a Subsidiary," Post-Print hal-01787366, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01787366
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01787366. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.