著者

犬飼 知徳

出版者

日本経営学会

雑誌

日本経営学会誌 (ISSN:18820271)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, pp.3-14, 2005

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The aim of this paper is to show the trap which the explanation of earlier studies of the organizational decline have and to suggest the direction about model building to overcome it. The earlier studies have a problem. They did not clarify the causal mechanism of organizational decline. Therefore they could not show how an organization recovers from decline. Of course some studies tried to account for the causal mechanism in earlier studies. But they have a trap which made it hard to explain the organizational decline. The trap comes out when we assume that the actors in their models would be reflective. This trap makes it hard of earlier studies to explain the organizational decline. This is because the actors have time enough to reflect why the organization declines. If the actors have time enough to be reflective, the earlier studies does not show the mechanism to explain why the organization does not recover from the decline. It is the lack of the mechanism that is the trap which the earlier studies have. This paper suggests a way of approaching it. According to the way, we tried to reinterpret The Innovator's Dilemma. This reinterpretation shows you that the combination of actions of many actors made the decline.