TY - JOUR
TI - Moderating Effect of Organizational Slack on Organizational Renewal: The Dynamic Capabilities Approach
AU - Gabryś, Bartłomiej J.
TI - Moderating Effect of Organizational Slack on Organizational Renewal: The Dynamic Capabilities Approach
AB - 
	Background. The idea behind the paper is to reconceptualise organizational renewal as a dynamic capability to reinterpret technologies, practices, beliefs in order to seize strategy by integrating, building and reconfiguring internal practices, processes, structures and systems as distinct organizational phenomenon. Proposed moderator – organizational slack seem to be relatively new concept when organizational renewal and organizational effectiveness are considered.

	Research aims. Purpose of this article is to redeploy concept of organizational renewal to direct researchers’ interest toward somehow neglected organizational phenomenon. Author believe that there is a critical gap in the previous studies, that have left opened door to new area for research by answering following research questions: What is an organizational renewal and how does it matter for organizational effectiveness? How indicated moderator – organizational slack – influence that process?

	Methodology. Based on critical literature review new working definition of organizational renewal is proposed. Following inductive way of reasoning (Sprogoe & Elkjaer, 2010) for new theory development four propositions were formulated based on the logic of predictive validity framework.

	Key findings. Author integrates and systematizes disparate ideas to develop a cohesive theory of organizational renewal as dynamic capability with organizational slack as a moderator.
VL - 2018
IS - Issue 17(1)
PY - 2018
SN - 2449-8920
C1 - 2449-8939
SP - 27
EP - 43
DO - 10.4467/24498939IJCM.18.002.8381
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/international-journal-of-contemporary-management/article/moderating-effect-of-organizational-slack-on-organizational-renewal-the-dynamic-capabilities-approach
KW - organizational renewal
KW - organizational effectiveness
KW - organizational slack