Innovating Strategy Processes
Published on 9. February 2009
296 pages
978-1-4051-4256-4 (ISBN)
Description
Innovating Strategy Process presents a series ofreflective essays by established and emerging scholars on thesubject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome ofstrategy and as a process in itself.
* Contains new ideas and rich case descriptions that will triggercreative thinking about how to design a more innovative strategyprocess.
* Offers new conceptual frameworks for analyzing and designingstrategy process.
* Addresses cutting-edge topics, such as play as the means andart as the impetus for strategy-making; the role of emotion in newventure decision-making; and science and entrepreneurship as asource of innovative strategies.
* Signals the future direction of the field.
Reviews / Votes
"The editors of this book have done a fabulous job of selecting creative papers and thoughtful essays on innovating strategy processes. Both academics and practitioners alike will find the ideas in this book stimulating and useful". Bala Chakravarthy, IMD, SwitzerlandMore details
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Steven W. Floyd | Johan Roos | Claus D. Jacobs
Innovating Strategy Processes
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Persons
Steven W. Floyd is the Cizik Chair of Strategic Management,Technology and Manufacturing and a Professor in the ManagementDepartment at the University of Connecticut.
Johan Roos a former Professor of Strategy and GeneralManagement, is now the Director of Lausanne-based Imagination LabFoundation.
Claus D. Jacobs is Research Fellow with the ImaginationLab Foundation in Lausanne.
Franz W. Kellermanns is Assistant Professor of Managementat the Mississippi State University's College of Business andIndustry.
Content
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 InnovativeStrategy (Gregory G. Dess and G. T. Lumpkin).
2. Entrepreneurship, Organizational Learning and CapabilityBuilding: A Governance Perspective (Eric Gedajlovic and ShakerZahra).
3. Homesteading on the Endless Frontier: Mapping Science toCultivate Innovation (Peter Lane).
4. The Pre-history of Strategy Processes (PatrickRegnér).
5. Strategy Formation Effects on Managerial Action (J. IgnacioCanales and Joaquim Vilà).
6. Strategy Creation as Serious Play (Claus D. Jacobs and MattStatler).
7. Strategy as Art: Using a Creative Action-Based Model forStrategy Formulation (Frances Fabian and dt Ogilvie) .
Part II: Contexts for Innovation and Strategy Making..
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 Garudand Peter Karnøe).
11. Making Strategy in the Multi-business Firm (SotiriosParoutis and Andrew Pettigrew).
12. Explaining the Process of Internationalization by BuildingBridges among Existing Models (Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and MiguelRamos).
13. Informal Controls at Work: Affecting Behavior amidstUncertainty (James Pappas and Karen Flaherty).
14. The Role of Social Context for Strategy Making: Examiningthe Impact of Embeddedness on the Performance of StrategicInitiatives (Karolin Marx and Christoph Lechner).
15. Strategic Consensus and Constructive Confrontation: UnifyingForces in the Resource Accumulation Process (Franz W. Kellermannsand 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 StrategyProcess Research (Gerry Johnson Richard Whittington and LeifMelin).
18. Strategic Renewal and the Entrepreneurial Mind: TheImportance of Cognition and Learning (Andrew C. Corbett).
19. Emotional Attachment and Conflict in Strategic DecisionMaking in New Ventures (Otto Koppius, Fedde Germans, and RogierVos).
20. The Search Process and Dimensions of Long-Term Growth(Gaurab Bhardwaj John C. Camillus and David A. Hounshell).
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 HowardThomas).
24. Regaining Relevance Lost (Bala Chakravarthy).
25. I Matter - Remaining the First Person in StrategyResearch (Johan Roos).
Index.
