Rallying the Troops and Defending against Sanctions: A Government Body Breaking Decision-Making Rules to Fund Entrepreneurial Ventures
Journal
Journal of Management Studies
ISSN
0022-2380
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Abstract
Critical to top management’s organizing efforts are the formal rules for how organizational members are to make decisions. However, employees can break top management’s decision-making rules. Although scholars have investigated rule breaking at the individual and group levels of analysis, research is needed into how members come together as a group to break an organization’s decisionmaking rules, and how groups’ rule breaking persists. To address this important research gap, we draw from a real-time qualitative investigation of both the breaking and following of decision-making rules to develop a group model that: (1) explains how an individual can trigger his or her group to break decision-making rules to generate perceived benefits for the group and/or others external to the organization, (2) provides insights into the mechanisms by which rule breaking persists, and (3) highlights the norms of developing and perpetuating groups’ breaking decision-making rules
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
Global Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Limited
Volume
38
Number
2
Start page
321
End page
358
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
joakim.vincent@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
259442
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