Shaping strategy as a structuration process

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jarzabkowski, Paula
• 署名单位: Aston University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 621-650
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; TECHNOLOGY; CHALLENGES; time; complexity; DELIBERATE; EVOLUTION; DYNAMICS; resource

摘要

Research on top managers' strategizing behavior has addressed how they shape either the structural context: or the interpretations of organization members. I offer a structuration theory framework integrating these two partial explanations and treating strategy shaping as socially dynamic. A qualitative seven-year analysis of top managers in three universities shows a sequential pattern of shaping strategy first in the action and then in the institutional realm, and also a simultaneous pattern of shaping strategy in both realms at once. Both patterns are successful in weakly institutionalized strategy contexts, whereas the simultaneous pattern is more successful in strongly institutionalized strategy contexts.