Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself.
* Contains new ideas and rich case descriptions that will trigger creative thinking about how to design a more innovative strategy process.
* Offers new conceptual frameworks for analyzing and designing strategy process.
* Addresses cutting-edge topics, such as play as the means and art as the impetus for strategy-making; the role of emotion in new venture decision-making; and science and entrepreneurship as a source of innovative strategies.
* Signals the future direction of the field.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Contributors.
Introduction (Steven W. Floyd, Johan Roos, Claus D. Jacobs,
Franz W. Kellermanns).
Part I: The Genesis of Innovative Strategy Making. .
1. Entrepreneurial Orientation as a Source of Innovative
Strategy (Gregory G. Dess and G. T. Lumpkin).
2. Entrepreneurship, Organizational Learning and Capability
Building: A Governance Perspective (Eric Gedajlovic and Shaker
Zahra).
3. Homesteading on the Endless Frontier: Mapping Science to
Cultivate Innovation (Peter Lane).
4. The Pre-history of Strategy Processes (Patrick
Regnér).
5. Strategy Formation Effects on Managerial Action (J. Ignacio
Canales and Joaquim Vilà).
6. Strategy Creation as Serious Play (Claus D. Jacobs and Matt
Statler).
7. Strategy as Art: Using a Creative Action-Based Model for
Strategy Formulation (Frances Fabian and dt Ogilvie) .
Part II: Contexts for Innovation and Strategy Making.
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8. Critical Issues in Learning Processes (Marjorie Lyles,
Charles Dhanaraj Kevin Steensma).
9. Rethinking the Strategy Process: A Co-evolutionary Approach
(Henk W. Volberda).
10. Distributed Agency and Interactive Emergence (Raghu Garud
and Peter Karnøe).
11. Making Strategy in the Multi-business Firm (Sotirios
Paroutis and Andrew Pettigrew).
12. Explaining the Process of Internationalization by Building
Bridges among Existing Models (Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and Miguel
Ramos).
13. Informal Controls at Work: Affecting Behavior amidst
Uncertainty (James Pappas and Karen Flaherty).
14. The Role of Social Context for Strategy Making: Examining
the Impact of Embeddedness on the Performance of Strategic
Initiatives (Karolin Marx and Christoph Lechner).
15. Strategic Consensus and Constructive Confrontation: Unifying
Forces in the Resource Accumulation Process (Franz W. Kellermanns
and Steven W. Floyd) .
Part III: Innovative Models of Strategy Process. .
16. What Really is Strategic Process (Mark Kriger).
17. Micro Strategy and Strategizing: Implications for Strategy
Process Research (Gerry Johnson Richard Whittington and Leif
Melin).
18. Strategic Renewal and the Entrepreneurial Mind: The
Importance of Cognition and Learning (Andrew C. Corbett).
19. Emotional Attachment and Conflict in Strategic Decision
Making in New Ventures (Otto Koppius, Fedde Germans, and Rogier
Vos).
20. The Search Process and Dimensions of Long-Term Growth
(Gaurab Bhardwaj John C. Camillus and David A. Hounshell)
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Part IV: Integrating Theory and Practice. .
21. Strengthening our Practices as an Academic Field of Inquiry
(Anne S. Huff).
22. On the Moral Necessity of Strategy Making (Bart Victor).
23. Reflections on the Field of Strategy (Taieb Hafsi and Howard
Thomas).
24. Regaining Relevance Lost (Bala Chakravarthy).
25. I Matter – Remaining the First Person in Strategy
Research (Johan Roos).
Index.
Circa l’autore
Steven W. Floyd is the Cizik Chair of Strategic Management,
Technology and Manufacturing and a Professor in the Management
Department at the University of Connecticut.
Johan Roos a former Professor of Strategy and General
Management, is now the Director of Lausanne-based Imagination Lab
Foundation.
Claus D. Jacobs is Research Fellow with the Imagination
Lab Foundation in Lausanne.
Franz W. Kellermanns is Assistant Professor of Management
at the Mississippi State University’s College of Business and
Industry.