DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING: A MODEL OF SENIOR LEADERS MANAGING STRATEGIC PARADOXES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Smith, Wendy K.
• 署名单位: University of Delaware
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2011.0932
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1592-1623
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY; MEDIATING ROLE; INNOVATION; exploitation; exploration; management; CONFLICT; IDENTITY; CONTRADICTIONS; capabilities

摘要

Senior leaders increasingly embed paradoxes into their organization's strategy, but struggle to manage them effectively. To better understand how they do so, I compared in-depth qualitative data from six top management teams exploring and exploiting simultaneously. The results informed a model of dynamic decision making in which strategic paradoxes can be effectively engaged. The details of this dynamic decision-making model extend and complicate our understanding of managing paradoxes by depicting dilemmas and paradoxes as interwoven, explicating a consistently inconsistent pattern of addressing tensions, and framing both differentiating and integrating practices as necessary for engaging paradox.