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Individ och agentskap i strategiska processer : En syntetisk och handlingslogisk ansats

Gabrielsson, Åke, 1942- (författare)
Umeå universitet,Företagsekonomi
Paulsson, Margareta, 1945- (författare)
Umeå universitet,Företagsekonomi
Bengtsson, Maria (preses)
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Johansson Lindfors, Maj-Britt (preses)
Melin, Leif, Professor (opponent)
IHH, Jönköping
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ISBN 9173058025
Umeå : Företagsekonomi, 2004
Svenska 530 s.
Serie: Studier i företagsekonomi. Serie B, 0346-8291 ; 55
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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  • Even if strategy research often assumes that strategies are the result of intentional and purposeful behaviour the individual and human agency have tended to be neglected. Few empirical studies focus on how the individuals, their conceptions and actions interact with strategy formation. Based on ideas from process research and critical realism we made a review of the research and we maintain that the bulk of the research is based on simplified assumptions. We therefore propose a supplementary socio-cognitive approach based on more realistic assumptions, a synthesis and action logic approach, emphasising the individuals, the leading team and their embeddedness. In a process study with a comparative case study design we followed, in real time for about a decade, strategy formation processes in intermediate organisation in local economic development. Various methods of data collection and analysis were combined. By laying bare some of the mechanisms that explain the outcome in four processes we demonstrate the use of the proposed approach. A theoretical construction, the agent´s strategic concepts of action (SCA), aims at capturing the conceptions as an expression of the individual frame of reference providing reasons for action. The SCA carries explanatory power and is significant for both the process and content of the strategies. A typology of the SCAs is developed. The composition, the interaction and the structure of the team are other central aspects. We conclude that a strong group well suited to lead a formation process include a proactive strategist with a strategic idea and social capability; the role constellation is differentiated, and supplementary and other strategic actors relate to the strategy and the contextual roots in a way that will support the strategy. We also demonstrate in which circumstances some cognitive, social and political mechanisms discussed in earlier research are activated.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Business and economics
Human agency
strategic actors
strategy formation
synthesis
action logic
individual
team
role constellation
process study
critical realism
way of thinking
strategic concepts of action
Ekonomi
Business and economics
Ekonomi
företagsekonomi
Business Studies

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