Strategy implementation : Taking stock and moving forward

Friesl, Martin and Stensaker, Inger and Colman, Helene (2021) Strategy implementation : Taking stock and moving forward. Long Range Planning, 54 (4): 102064. ISSN 0024-6301

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Abstract

Strategy implementation (SI) is a significant managerial, and organizational challenge as many practitioners struggle to make strategies actionable and to achieve intended results. Moreover, there is no unified body of research on SI. This is problematic for academics aiming to contribute to a research-based body of knowledge on implementation. To remedy this problem, we draw on the strategy-as-practice perspective and conceptualize SI as a particular type of ‘strategy work’, manifest in the activities, actors, and tools through which strategy is executed. This conceptual framework allows us to synthesize the fragmented literature into five implementation practices: structure and process matching, resource matching, monitoring, framing, and negotiating. We show how these implementation activities operate at different levels and involve different actors and tools. With its emphasis on what managers (and other people) do within specific structural, temporal, and material arrangements, the strategy-as-practice perspective offers exciting opportunities for future implementation research.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Long Range Planning
Additional Information:
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Long Range Planning. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Long Range Planning, 54, 4, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2020.102064
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? strategy implementationstrategy workstrategy as practicemanagerial agencytemporalitymaterialityfinancestrategy and managementgeography, planning and development ??
ID Code:
149223
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Deposited On:
19 Nov 2020 10:23
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Yes
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Published
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22 Mar 2024 00:51