Advancing Understanding of Proactive Strategic Behaviors in the Context of Organizational Ch ange
Contemporary organizations are navigating accelerated and multifaceted transformations shaped by global megatrends and interna l systemic pressures, creating cascading demands that compel firms to act proactively to survive and grow in volatile environments. Unders tanding these dynamics requires a micro-level perspective that captur es the interpersonal processes between leaders and followers across h ierarchical levels. Accordingly, this dissertation examines how indiv idual differences and motives shape proactive strategic behaviors in the context of organizational change. Overall, the findings suggest t hat dispositionally proactive leaders and followers engage in proacti ve strategic behaviors through certain motives, and that this process is contingent on career-related perceptions and hierarchical positio n. These insights underscore that proactivity is not merely a stable disposition but a context-sensitive, motivational process that unfold s within organizational hierarchies.
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DESCRIPTION: Contemporary organizations are navigating accelerated and multifaceted transformations shaped by global megatrends and interna l systemic pressures, creating cascading demands that compel firms to act proactively to survive and grow in volatile environments. Unders tanding these dynamics requires a micro-level perspective that captur es the interpersonal processes between leaders and followers across h ierarchical levels. Accordingly, this dissertation examines how indiv idual differences and motives shape proactive strategic behaviors in the context of organizational change. Overall, the findings suggest t hat dispositionally proactive leaders and followers engage in proacti ve strategic behaviors through certain motives, and that this process is contingent on career-related perceptions and hierarchical positio n. These insights underscore that proactivity is not merely a stable disposition but a context-sensitive, motivational process that unfold s within organizational hierarchies. More information on the thes is Advancing Understanding of Proactive Strategic Behaviors in th e Context of Organizational Change END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR