Managing Multiple Organizational Goals in Turbulent Environments: Organizational Control, Goal Polychronicity and Performance Impact [Paperback]

This book examines the management of multiple goals in organizations especially in today's increasingly turbulent business environment. In this book, authors develop a novel concept of goal polychronicity, wherein organizations may attend to multiple goals simultaneously, rather than mono-chronically through sequential attention. This book further investigates the impact of internal organizational control systems and external environmental turbulence on multiple goals management. Empirical evidence is drawn from in-depth interviews of top executives and large-scale survey of top executives from four countries (US, Australia, China, and Israel). The book enriches the understanding of multiple goals and provides evidence-based recommendations to researchers and practitioners in managing multiple goals.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Literature Review.- Chapter 3. Theory and Hypotheses for Model 1-Antecedents of Goal Polychronicity.- Chapter 4. Theory and Hypotheses for Model 2-Performance Impact of Goal Polychronicity.- Chapter 5. Empirical Context, Methods and Data  Interviews.- Chapter 6. Empirical Context, Methods and Data  Survey.- Chapter 7. Analysis and Results for Model 1.- Chapter 8. Analysis and Results for Model 2.- Chapter 9. Discussion.- Chapter 10. Limitations and Future Research Directions.- Chapter 11. Summary and Conclusions.

Feifei Yang is an Assistant Professor at Asia Europe Business School, Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University. She received her Ph.D. from University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include organizational goals, organizational control, turbulent environments, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Her research has been published at academic journals including Information & Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Journal of Business Research.

George A. Shinkle is a Professor of Strateg