Theory and research in strategic management: Swings of a pendulum

Hoskisson, Robert E.; Hitt, Michael A.; Wan, William P.; Yiu, Daphne W.

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“…While prior analyses have examined the rise and fall of specific theories or research topics within strategic management (e.g. Hoskisson, Hitt, Wan, and Yiu, 1999;Ramos-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Navarro, 2004), in this paper we pursue a more fundamental objective: to identify the consensus definition -both implicit and explicit -or the very meaning of the field.…”

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“…Among these various assessments, for instance, Hoskisson, et al (1999) traced the pendulumlike swings in the field's emphasis on firms' external environments and internal resources. Summer, Bettis, Duhaime, Grant, Hambrick, Snow, and Zeithaml (1990) analyzed the historical progression and status of doctoral education in the field.…”

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What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Nag

Hambrick

Chen

2007

Strategic Management Journal

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It is commonly asserted that the field of strategic management is fragmented and lacks a coherent identity. This skepticism, however, is paradoxically at odds with the great success that strategic management has enjoyed. How might one explain this paradox? We seek answers to this question by relying first on a large‐scale survey of strategic management scholars from which we derive an implicit consensual definition of the field—as tacitly held by its members. We then supplement this implicit definition with an examination of the espoused definitions of the field obtained from a group of boundary‐spanning scholars. Our findings suggest that strategic management's success as a field emerges from an underlying consensus that enables it to attract multiple perspectives, while still maintaining its coherent distinctiveness. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Conceptual Background Past Efforts To Define the Fieldmentioning

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What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Nag

Hambrick

Chen

2007

Strategic Management Journal

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“…These studies may provide implications for studies of decline. For example, they could consider the TMT as a strategic resource (Hoskisson, Hitt, Wan, & Yiu, 1999), whose impact is manifested in the allocation of resources (Hambrick & Mason, 1984), which could prevent decline and lead companies down the path to restructuring (Pandit, 2000). Some studies on organizational success highlight the role of the leaders and cognitive behavior of the management in relation to performance (e.g., Hambrick & D'Aveni, 1988;Hambrick & Mason, 1984).…”

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Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Serra

Pinto

Guerrazzi

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BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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Organizational decline is related to the deterioration of the resource base and performance of an organization for a sustained period of time. Although some studies have been conducted, it remains an understudied phenomenon, despite its importance. The study of organizational decline is faced with challenges to improving and increasing research. In this study, we analyze the scientific field of organizational decline in business and management journals with a high impact factor. We conducted a mixed-method study: a bibliometric study of a sample of 214 articles, and a qualitative study with 41 authors. We used an analysis of citations, co-citations and factor analysis. This enabled the identification of the most influential works and their conceptual approaches. The interviews with the authors were analyzed using content analysis, which complemented our understanding of the challenges and problems facing the theme. The results show that organizational decline can be organized into three different aspects: organizational decline itself; studies on turnaround; and mortality. Specific challenges to overcome are related to a better definition, cognitive issues and other issues on decision-making and specific methodological problems. In addition, it is necessary to evaluate whether theories that explain growth are also able to explain decline.

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“…Portanto, como consequência, a história do desenvolvimento do pensamento de administração estratégica esteve marcada por muitas mudanças em nível de análise, orientação teórica e métodos de pesquisa que acompanharam a oscilação da teoria e pesquisa. Hoskisson et al (1999) e Hitt et al (1998) utilizam a metáfora do "balanço de um pêndulo" para caracterizar esse processo nos últimos 40 anos.…”

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“…Esta fase revela um movimento de saída do modelo tradicional de "política de negócios" para a adoção de novo paradigma de "estratégia administrativa", o que, por sua vez, representou a passagem para uma disciplina de pesquisa empiricamente orientada com maior conotação de cientificidade (Hoskisson et al, 1999). Antes dos anos 70, a pesquisa acadêmica consistia basicamente em estudos de casos clínicos de situações atuais, visando-se à generalização mediante a indução.…”

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Qualidade é interpretacionismo: proposta de superação do possível viés contra pesquisas qualitativas em estratégia

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RESUMOEste ensaio teórico tem o objetivo de apresentar a abordagem interpretacionista como uma opção promissora para o estudo de fenômenos organizacionais. Mais especificamente deseja-se propor uma alavancagem de rigor qualitativo-interpretacionista em estudos desenvolvidos em meio ao campo de administração estratégica, onde se percebe a predominância da corrente positivista, apesar do crescente argumento de se trabalhar com delineamentos mais explanativos. Portanto, algumas questões críticas para a evolução da pesquisa interpretacionista neste ramo de conhecimento são discutidas, culminando com a apresentação das dimensões que a estratégia adquire por essa abordagem. Os contornos da perspectiva da estratégia como prática, linha de estudos que se tem apresentado como novo direcionamento para os estudos de estratégia, são oferecidos de forma a integrar os argumentos para uma consideração de estratégia como atividade contextualizada, fluida e contínua. Para finalizar discorre-se sobre a adoção de novas expectativas e pressuposições condizentes com a tradição interpretacionista como uma forma de responder ao distanciamento entre teoria e prática, desafio histórico no campo da administração estratégica.Palavras-chave: estratégia, interpretacionismo, epistemologia, estratégia como prática. ABSTRACTThe objective of this article is to present the interpretive approach as a promising option for the study of organizational phenomena. More specifically, a leverage of qualitative-interpretivist rigor is proposed for the studies developed in the field of business strategy, where the dominance of a positivist tendency is perceived in spite of the growing argument for more explanative designs. Therefore, the article raises some critical issues for the evolution of interpretative research in this branch of knowledge, culminating with a discussion of the dimensions that strategy acquires through this approach. The outlines of the strategy-as-practice perspective are offered as a way of integrating the arguments in order to have strategy as a contextual, fluid and continuous activity. The adoption of new expectations and assumptions consistent with the interpretive tradition is discussed as a way of responding to the distance between theory and practice, a historical challenge in the field of strategy.

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Theory and research in strategic management: Swings of a pendulum

Abstract: The development of the field of strategic management within the last two decades has been dramatic. While

Cited by 785 publications

References 248 publications

What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Qualidade é interpretacionismo: proposta de superação do possível viés contra pesquisas qualitativas em estratégia

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