# Learning more from crossing levels: Investigating agility at three levels of the organization

## TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of analyzing organizational agility across macro, meso, and micro levels to develop comprehensive, actionable guidelines for organizations seeking to enhance agility.

## Contribution

It proposes a multi-level approach to understanding organizational agility, integrating insights from organizational science at three different abstraction levels.

## Key findings

- Highlighting the need for multi-level analysis of agility
- Designing studies for validated measurement of agility
- Aiming to guide companies in targeted agility investments

## Abstract

Scholars have tried to explain how organizations can build agile teams by only looking at one level of analysis. We argue in this short paper that lessons can be learned from organizational science results explaining variance on three different abstraction levels of organizations. We suggest agility needs to be explained from organizational (macro), the team (meso), and individual (micro) levels to provide useful and actionable guidelines to practitioners. We are currently designing such studies and hope that they will eventually result in validated measurements that can be used to prevent companies from investing in the wrong areas when trying to move towards more agility.