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Is the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change an antecedent of employees’ resistance to change?

Is the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change an antecedent of employees’... This research aims to investigate whether the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is an important antecedent of resistance to change and to explore why some enterprises are reluctant to choose institutional entrepreneurship for transformation when the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is high.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested by multiple regression analysis and structural equation model, using data collected from a big company with 14 subsidiaries undergoing organizational change.FindingsUncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change not only results in resistance to change through the mediating variable – organizational readiness for change but also is an important influencing factor for enterprises’ choices of change strategy.Research limitations/implicationsTransformational change may alter original organizational legitimacy so that some enterprises prefer isomorphic change and decoupling change to maintain original organizational legitimacy, rather than institutional entrepreneurship to seek new organizational legitimacy.Practical implicationsTo foster innovation and a new form of creation for firms, governments should provide enterprises with legitimacy in time by establishing a rapid legitimacy learning mechanism to supplement institutional voids, whereas enterprises should promote organizational readiness for change to reduce the negative influence of the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy.Originality/valueThis research reveals that the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is an antecedent of resistance to change and enriches antecedent categorical presupposition of resistance to change. These findings provide valuable insight for explaining why enterprises in economic entities with institutional voids such as China chose similar change strategies rather than institutional entrepreneurship. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Chinese Management Studies Emerald Publishing

Is the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change an antecedent of employees’ resistance to change?

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
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© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
1750-614X
eISSN
1750-614X
DOI
10.1108/cms-07-2020-0309
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Abstract

This research aims to investigate whether the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is an important antecedent of resistance to change and to explore why some enterprises are reluctant to choose institutional entrepreneurship for transformation when the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is high.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested by multiple regression analysis and structural equation model, using data collected from a big company with 14 subsidiaries undergoing organizational change.FindingsUncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change not only results in resistance to change through the mediating variable – organizational readiness for change but also is an important influencing factor for enterprises’ choices of change strategy.Research limitations/implicationsTransformational change may alter original organizational legitimacy so that some enterprises prefer isomorphic change and decoupling change to maintain original organizational legitimacy, rather than institutional entrepreneurship to seek new organizational legitimacy.Practical implicationsTo foster innovation and a new form of creation for firms, governments should provide enterprises with legitimacy in time by establishing a rapid legitimacy learning mechanism to supplement institutional voids, whereas enterprises should promote organizational readiness for change to reduce the negative influence of the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy.Originality/valueThis research reveals that the uncertainty of gaining legitimacy from organizational change is an antecedent of resistance to change and enriches antecedent categorical presupposition of resistance to change. These findings provide valuable insight for explaining why enterprises in economic entities with institutional voids such as China chose similar change strategies rather than institutional entrepreneurship.

Journal

Chinese Management StudiesEmerald Publishing

Published: Sep 16, 2021

Keywords: Transformational change; Resistance to change; Organizational readiness for change; Uncertainty of gaining legitimacy

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