Case

ASDA and Scott Paper

Beer and Nohria use these two companies to illustrate two ways of changing (shareholder-value led and capability led).

Industry
Retail; paper
Frameworks applied
Theory E and Theory O of change
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Frameworks applied

This case is read through the frameworks below.

  • Theory E and Theory O of changeWhen leading a major organisational change, should a CEO pursue fast economic value through hard levers (Theory E), build culture and capability (Theory O), or combine both?

Sources

References

Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.

  1. Beer, M. and Nohria, N. (2000) Cracking the code of change. Harvard Business Review.No DOIhbr.orgSource page