2020
DOI: 10.5465/annals.2018.0137
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Completing the Adaptive Turn: An Integrative View of Strategy Implementation

Abstract: Based on our review of the past forty years of strategy implementation research, we find that the focus of the research area has moved from the pioneering structural control view to a more adaptive conception of strategy implementation. While early research focused mainly on how to conceptualize strategy implementation plans and how to establish optimal structures, systems, incentives, and controls for strategy implementation, the adaptive turn has shifted the research emphasis on to how organizations make sen… Show more

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“…The first theoretical contribution to emerge from our analysis concerns the nature of the implementation process and the types of tensions that emerged among actors. Our findings emphasize the process, rather than results, nature of implementation with an emphasis on an emergent and dynamic implementation process and highlights what Weiser, Jarzabkowski, and Laamanen (2020) call “the adaptive turn.” This contrasts with the rational‐adaptive assumptions that underpin much of the HRM implementation literature and the idea that practices can be systematically implemented and managed (Trullen et al, 2020). Our findings in particular reveal that implementation involves opposing perspectives that evoke tensions, and as a consequence, the implementation process is iterative and nonlinear in nature.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…The first theoretical contribution to emerge from our analysis concerns the nature of the implementation process and the types of tensions that emerged among actors. Our findings emphasize the process, rather than results, nature of implementation with an emphasis on an emergent and dynamic implementation process and highlights what Weiser, Jarzabkowski, and Laamanen (2020) call “the adaptive turn.” This contrasts with the rational‐adaptive assumptions that underpin much of the HRM implementation literature and the idea that practices can be systematically implemented and managed (Trullen et al, 2020). Our findings in particular reveal that implementation involves opposing perspectives that evoke tensions, and as a consequence, the implementation process is iterative and nonlinear in nature.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…We contribute to recent research that breaks down the artificial separation between practices and praxis suggesting that strategy is fluid and runs seamlessly from ideation to implementation/enactment (Leonardi, 2015). This is consistent with the shift in strategy research too, which has seen the emergence of what Weiser et al (2020) call the 'adaptive turn', removing the analytical separation between the creation and the implementation of strategy and to paying more attention to dynamic processes of enactment of strategy. These ideas can be traced to earlier work by Walsham and Han (1993) when he talks of the formation -rather than the formulation -of strategy, and earlier still, of Mintzberg's discussion of emergent strategies (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 79%
“…By so doing, we contribute to both fields with a novel view of technology in organisational strategising. Future research could start to look for integrative approaches (Weiser et al, 2020) or hybrid research designs (Kouamé and Langley, 2018), whereby established research approaches – for example, variance studies – are combined with process and instantiation (practice) research.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Hence, individuals in middle management represent essential agents for an "adaptive" turnaround with regard to the implementation of strategies. As suggested by Weiser, Jarzabkowski and Laamen (2020), middle management actively participates and promotes adaptation in strategic implementations by creating meanings, narratives and coordination mechanisms (Weiser et al, 2020).…”
Section: Actions Of Facilitating Adaptablity and Implementation Realisationmentioning
confidence: 99%