... in relevant directions to enable digital transformation. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 4IR Organization change Technology Strategy Running business Dilemma Digital transformation AECO The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR...

...Niels Thyge Thygesen Purpose To contribute the process perspective on strategy the systems theoretical concept of time binding and show how time, when unfolded and linked, is compressed or stretched, thereby demonstrating the motion of temporal spaces within organizations. Design/methodology...

... Strategy Ling Yuan can be contacted at: hnyuanling@163.com 19 10 2021 19 05 2022 19 05 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only External environment drives established enterprises to employ management...

... rights only The typology presents three viable business strategies – prospectors, defenders and analyzers which exhibit distinct, yet consistent and repetitive, behavior in terms of the way they analyze their environment, their breadth of product/market domains, their innovativeness and their use...

... can bridge theory and empirics, but it is argued that they can perform several bridging functions: between theory and praxis, between analysis and strategy and between past and future. The focus is on those forms of bridging relevant for understanding and effectuating change in governance...

...Qinglan Chen; Tor Eriksson The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the mediating role of decentralization in the relationship between a firm’s strategy and its performance in the context of an advanced economy where the chief corporate strategy is differentiation. Qinglan...

... of the new framework within organizations. Practical implications The framework is anticipated to be particularly useful for middle managers because they are tasked with translating high-level strategies into action and leading lower level employees toward enacting the new or adapted identity claims...

...Susanne Kjærbeck; Marianne Wolff Lundholt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate employees’ conflicting perspectives on the business strategy in a Danish housing association through a narrative approach, in order to gain insight into the relation between master- and counter-narratives...

...Laura Padilla-Angulo; Faten Ben Slimane Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study corporate governance restructuring strategies of companies to adapt to new market conditions following conversion into a for-profit structure. It focuses on the changes in the composition of the board...

...Deepa Mishra; Sameer Kumar; R.R.K. Sharma; Rameshwar Dubey Purpose Although there is a growing body of literature on human resource (HR) outsourcing, there are still unresolved issues regarding the level of outsourcing HR activities initiated in firms having different strategies and structures...

... that whether firms should remain consistent or adapt flexibility in their strategic choice to produce better performance? The supporters of both the arguments provide substantial evidence in their favor. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategy-performance relationship in this context along...

... and predictable business environment and turbulent and unpredictable business environment. This study, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the first to investigate the issue in the Indonesian context. How organisations develop strategies has been one of the most fiercely debated topics in strategic...

...Steven John Henderson The paper raises important ontological and epidemiological issues of strategy and change in ways that neither create impenetrable language barriers nor require a philosophical background to grasp. Ontology Strategy Followership Nonsense Snark Business strategy...

... level (ownership type/structure and board of directors) influence firm strategy, and what implications these issues have for the design of compensation mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed in the study can be described as a longitudinal multiple case study approach...

...Lara Johannsdottir; Snjolfur Olafsson; Brynhildur Davidsdottir Purpose – The change management literature on strategy implementation identifies different dimensions of resistance to change. The contrary view – that of dimensions of acceptance of change when implementing strategy – has received...

... to the local, were intertwined in an organizational and situated context. Research limitations/implications – This paper builds on the small but growing body of empirical work that studies organizational strategy as a discourse. In this paper it has been argued that discursive processes are central...

...Andreas Alexiou Mikolaj Jan Piskorski A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media Princeton Princeton University Press 2014 275pp. $29.95, hardcover Social media Strategy Online Social platforms Why do online social platforms flourish, but most...

...Monica Elisabeth Nyström; Elisabet Höög; Rickard Garvare; Lars Weinehall; Anneli Ivarsson Purpose – The study identifies the variation of change strategies used in a complex large scale change program in health and social services in Sweden, aimed at changing professionals' health promoting...

... an actual organizational dilemma. Facilitators usually help with the problem analysis, group data collection and mapping, formation of action strategies and their experimentation to address the problem, and attendant learning. Reflective activities may be deployed to help people question and reframe...

...Anthony F. Buono Most merger and acquisition strategies are still dominated by financial analyses, legal considerations and power plays by dominant groups as individuals jockey for position and influence. Rather than focusing on the inherent dysfunctions that can emerge in the combined organization...