Some unanticipated consequences of organizational restructuring

We explore two consequences of organizational restructuring that are unanti cipated by managers. At the cognitive level of analysis, we propose that or ganizational restructuring hers the unanticipated consequence of producing cognitive order for top executives, and at the environmental level, organiz ational restructuring has the unanticipated consequence of contributing to long-term environmental turbulence. both feed back to promote further organ izational restructuring, making restructuring a self-reinforcing loop. We d erive formal propositions from this theoretical framework, discuss issues i n testing the propositions, and specify implications for future theory buil ding and management practice.