STRATEGY TOOLS-IN-USE: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGIES OF RATIONALITY IN PRACTICE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jarzabkowski, Paula; Kaplan, Sarah
• 署名单位: City St Georges, University of London; University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2270
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 537-558
• 关键词: strategy tools; STRATEGY-AS-PRACTICE; technologies-in-use; practice theory; STRATEGY PROCESS

摘要

In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by strategy makers. In conceptualizing strategy tools as tools-in-use, we offer a framework for examining the ways that the affordances of strategy tools and the agency of strategy makers interact to shape how and when tools are selected and applied. Further, rather than evaluating the correct or incorrect use of tools, we highlight the variety of outcomes that result, not just for organizations but also for the tools and the individuals who use them. We illustrate this framework with a vignette and propose an agenda and methodological approaches for further scholarship on the use of strategy tools. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.