FROM AUTONOMOUS STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR TO EMERGENT STRATEGY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mirabeau, Laurent; Maguire, Steve
• 署名单位: University of Ottawa; McGill University
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2149
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1202-1229
• 关键词: emergent strategy; autonomous strategic behavior; STRATEGY PROCESS; STRATEGY FORMATION; strategy as practice

摘要

This study develops a model of emergent strategy formation at a large telecommunications firm. It integrates prominent traditions in strategy process research-strategy as patterned action, as iterated resource allocation and as practice-to show how emergent strategy originates as a project through autonomous strategic behavior, then subsequently becomes realized as a consequence of mobilizing wider support to provide impetus, manipulating strategic context to legitimate the project by constructing it as consonant with the prevailing concept of strategy, and altering structural context to embed it within organizational units, routines, and objectives. The study theorizes the role of practices of strategy articulation in emergent strategy formation, and explains why some autonomous strategic behavior becomes ephemeral and disappears rather than enduring to become emergent strategy. Copyright (C) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.