Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270221094189
Kajsa Ahlgren Ode, C. Louche
This study examines business model innovation (BMI) in an established firm. We investigate the case of a Swedish utility company that adopted and implemented a business model (BM) pattern originating from outside the firm. We draw upon Scandinavian translation theory to understand the micro-level dynamics of how BMI unfolds. Our findings show that the BM pattern is disassembled into its constituent parts, that these are translated separately and, little by little, (re)assembled into a whole to form a new BM. This process involves several loops of translation activated by the interplay between five practices: formulating, engaging, resisting, anchoring, and energizing. On the basis of our findings, we develop a BM translation framework. We thereby contribute to a better understanding of the micro-level perspective on BMI initiated by the adoption of a BM pattern. We also reveal that BMI processes triggered by BM patterns from outside differ from those taking place when a new BM is entirely developed within a firm.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-19DOI: 10.1177/14761270211072248
S. Certo, Latifa Albader, Kristen E Raney, John R. Busenbark
Bayesian analysis offers strategy scholars numerous benefits. In addition to aligning empirical and theoretical endeavors by incorporating prior knowledge, the Bayesian approach allows researchers to estimate and visualize relationships that reflect the probability distributions many strategy researchers mistakenly interpret from conventional techniques. Yet, strategy scholars have proven hesitant to adopt Bayesian methods. We suggest this is because there is no accessible template for employing the technique with the types of data strategy researchers tend to encounter. The central objective of our research is to synthesize disparate contributions from the Bayesian literature that are relevant for strategy scholarship, especially for nested data. We provide an intuitive overview of Bayesian thinking and illustrate how scholars can employ Bayesian techniques to analyze nested data using an example dataset involving CEO compensation. Our results show how using Bayesian models may lead to substantively different interpretations and conclusions compared to traditional approaches based on frequentist techniques.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-13DOI: 10.1177/14761270221089959
Matthew S. Wood, G. Fisher
In a recent Strategic Organization essay, Arend analyzed four papers as contributions to entrepreneurship theory. He concluded that progress toward building unique-to-field conceptualizations is impeded because contributions in the domain are not sufficiently novel, do not cover the breadth of the phenomenon, and fail to offer normative guidance to practicing entrepreneurs. In this essay, we respond to these conclusions by examining the premise behind the evaluation of theory progress used to derive them, and then drawing on insights from the philosophy of science research to introduce a collective-evolutionary perspective as an alternative for the appraisal of entrepreneurship theory. Our alternative view shifts the focus from single papers toward evaluating theory as a collection of contributions that appear over time. Under this perspective, it is the degree to which newer theories take up insights from prior theory in an evolutionary fashion that serves as a key indicator of progress. Recognizing this, we advocate for a path toward productive theorizing in entrepreneurship where borrowing insights from prior cross-disciplinary theory is a strength rather than weakness, where wide-scope theory is important at the research program level while narrow scope is appropriate for individual contributions, and where obsession over the novelty of theory concepts undermines the continuity needed to produce a reliable body of knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1177/14761270221084224
M. Malherbe, A. Tellier
Developing a new value proposition requires that a set of partners align their interests. The challenge is to define an ecosystem strategy and agree on its constitutive features. Drawing on a “structuralist approach”, we provide insights into the conditions that constrain the alignment of partners. We conducted a longitudinal process study of the ecosystem of mobile contactless services in France that failed to reach alignment among partners. A comprehensive twelve-year picture of the ecosystem is created using a double-analytical design that reinforces the accuracy of the analysis. Our results highlight the factors that hinder the alignment of partners and lead to the development of an ecosystem based on a very different blueprint at the expense of its initial contributors. We reveal three sources of nonalignment: an overly ambitious and loosely defined value proposition, a value distribution risk, and inconsistencies in the multiscale institutional context.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1177/14761270221081534
Fabian Reck, Alexander Fliaster
In this paper, we advocate a theoretical perspective that views the firm’s ego-network as a configuration of multiple interdependent attributes, each granting resource advantages that may complement or substitute one another. Collecting empirical data from the German energy industry and using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), we explore how five major network attributes (size, diversity, strength, innovativeness, and complementarity) combine to impact firm-level innovation. Based on the empirical results, we specify the orchestrating themes that constitute the “internal” and “external” fit of network configurations. Concerning internal fit, we identify a distinct pattern of complementing and substituting relations between network attributes. Specifically, we find that innovation performance results from the firm’s network combining network size or partner diversity or tie strength, and partner innovativeness or partner complementarity. Concerning external fit, we demonstrate that depending on firm size and internal intellectual capital, there are different “optimal” network configurations for different types of firms.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270221081310
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270221081340
The urgency of grand challenges is clear. In the past twelve months, we have witnessed several interconnected global crises wreak havoc on communities around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic is still looming despite national efforts to vaccinate all citizens and the long-term damage of the pandemic is yet to be seen. The COVID-19 pandemic struck during another global crisis—climate change. Despite scientific warnings over the past decades, climate action is still falling short of meeting deep decarbonization goals that will achieve globally agreed-upon climate targets. Furthermore, longer-standing challenges involving systemic racism have manifested through a series of hate crimes and Black Lives Matter protests. Poverty, inequality, gender-based discrimination, persecution of the LGBTIQ community, and labor exploitation are among the perennial issues which afflict humanity, and which are manifested within and beyond strategic organizations. Other environmental challenges such as rapid biodiversity loss have reached planetary proportions. Moreover, many of the challenges intersect. For example, climate change poses a particular threat to low-lying Pacific Island nations which are also subject to poverty in some cases. The poor and women are exploited in sweatshops in developing countries. Vaccines for COVID-19 appear to be available more easily in rich countries than poor ones. Managerial decision-making at the firm level is starting to consider the complexity of these interconnected issues and how to manage them strategically. At the same time, there is a growing emphasis on developing strategy and organization theory that is impactful and contributes to solving grand societal challenges (Jarzabkowski et al., 2021). Academic funding bodies are increasingly emphasizing the need for rigorous academic research that is societally relevant. For example, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK requests university submissions for impact cases which can affect 25% of the government funding for each institution thus providing universities with real financial incentives to promote impact cases. Researchers are rising to the challenge of combining research with impact by co-creating sustainability research with practitioners (Sharma and Bansal, 2020) and engaging in scientific activism (Whiteman, 2021). And initiatives such as the Responsible Research in Business & Management Network (RRBM), the Impact Scholar Community, and the Research Impact of Practice Award further demonstrate that the movement for impact research is growing. 1081340 SOQ0010.1177/14761270221081340Strategic OrganizationCall for Papers research-article2022
重大挑战的紧迫性是显而易见的。在过去的12个月里，我们目睹了几次相互关联的全球危机对全球社区造成的严重破坏。尽管国家努力为所有公民接种疫苗，但新冠肺炎疫情仍在逼近，疫情的长期损害尚待观察。新冠肺炎大流行发生在另一场全球危机——气候变化期间。尽管在过去几十年里发出了科学警告，但气候行动仍未能实现深度脱碳目标，从而实现全球商定的气候目标。此外，涉及系统性种族主义的长期挑战通过一系列仇恨犯罪和“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动表现出来。贫困、不平等、基于性别的歧视、对LGBTIQ群体的迫害和劳动力剥削是困扰人类的长期问题，这些问题在战略组织内外都有体现。其他环境挑战，如生物多样性的迅速丧失，已经达到了全球性的程度。此外，许多挑战相互交叉。例如，气候变化对地势低洼的太平洋岛国构成了特别的威胁，这些国家在某些情况下也面临贫困。发展中国家的血汗工厂剥削穷人和妇女。新冠肺炎疫苗在富裕国家似乎比贫穷国家更容易获得。企业层面的管理决策开始考虑这些相互关联的问题的复杂性，以及如何从战略上管理它们。与此同时，人们越来越重视发展具有影响力并有助于解决重大社会挑战的战略和组织理论（Jarzabkowski et al.，2021）。学术资助机构越来越强调需要进行与社会相关的严格学术研究。例如，英国的卓越研究框架（REF）要求大学提交影响案例，这可能会影响每个机构25%的政府资金，从而为大学提供真正的财政激励来推广影响案例。研究人员正通过与从业者共同创建可持续性研究（Sharma和Bansal，2020）和参与科学行动主义（Whiteman，2021），迎接将研究与影响力相结合的挑战。商业与管理负责任研究网络（RRBM）、影响力学者社区和实践研究影响力奖等举措进一步表明，影响力研究运动正在发展。1081340 SOQ0010.1177/1476120221081340战略组织呼吁论文研究2022
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270221081332
P. Bansal, Juliane Reinecke, R. Suddaby, A. Langley
Time and temporality are central to strategy and strategic management. Yet, relatively little attention has been paid to what organizational members do to shape temporal phenomena that are important for strategic outcomes. In this essay, we define temporal work as any individual, collective, or organizational effort to influence, sustain or redirect the temporal assumptions and patterns that shape strategic action, and we introduce the seven articles in this special issue that explore this concept. Building on the rich insights emerging from these articles, we show how temporal work acts on temporal assumptions by shaping perceptions and interpretations, reorients patterns through temporal structures underpinning action, and influences the value associated with time. This is achieved through various combinations of temporal talk, temporal practices and temporal objects. By focusing on the role of human agency in shaping temporal phenomena, the notion of temporal work opens up exciting opportunities for research on issues that are critical for the future of organizations and society.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1177/14761270221078605
Christoph Endenich, Rüdiger Hahn, D. Reimsbach, C. Wickert
Integrated reporting has widely been promoted as the next evolutionary step in corporate disclosure, which would soon replace traditional reporting practices. Embedded in a zeitgeist that favors sustainability, this outlook would suggest high integrated reporting adoption rates among reporting organizations. Our analysis of integrated reporting in Germany from 2008 to 2019 shows, however, that organizations approached integrated reporting with a wait-and-see mentality. This approach cannot be described adequately by the existing conceptualizations of (partial) practice adoption. We therefore develop the notion of wait-and-see-ism, defined as the deliberate and potentially long-lasting postponement of a decision to adopt a practice while its further development is monitored silently. We see limited, though continuous, efforts to prepare for the prospect of adopting the practice of integrated reporting quickly at a later stage. Wait-and-see-ism expands on prior work on partial adoption by emphasizing its temporal dimension. This adds an important yet undertheorized option that organizations can employ to respond to ambiguous institutional demands, thus explaining the stalling of promising management practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1177/14761270211067162
P. Hensel
Despite capitalizing on many new possibilities offered by the digital revolution, our research community still remains bound by the 17th-century technology of research results reporting. Our work can progress faster and achieve greater impact within and beyond academia if we replace the one-package manuscript form, born three hundred years ago, with a full package that takes advantage of everything digital technology has to offer. However, the switch from paper-bound to digitally enabled logic will not be easy as our thinking and practices have been formed by decades of honing skills that bring success in the current conventions.
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