Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Shaping strategy as a structuration process

Notes: Sumario: Research on top managers' strategizing behavior has addressed how they shape either the structural context or the interpretations of organization members. The author offers 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 contextsRelated records: En: Academy of management journal. - New York : Academy of Management, 1999-2010 = ISSN 0001-4573. - 01/08/2008 Tomo 51 Número 4 - 2008, p. 621-630Materia / lugar / evento: Cambio organizativo Estrategia organizativa Management Other categories: 922.111

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