Exploring adaptive small and medium enterprises through the lens of open strategy

Ates, Aylin; Andersen, Torben Juul and Torp, Simon and Linder, Stefan, eds. (2019) Exploring adaptive small and medium enterprises through the lens of open strategy. In: Strategic Responsiveness and Adaptive Organizations. Emerald Publishing Limited, West Yorkshire, pp. 25-39. ISBN 9781789730128

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    Abstract

    This chapter aims to develop a conceptual framework to probe evidence of open strategy phenomenon as being practiced by adaptive small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing industry. Specifically, this study focuses on the act and doing of strategy communications, based on a set of readying and entrepreneuring practices, involving a plurality of internal and external actors (i.e. owner manager/ entrepreneur, middle managers, shop floor employees, suppliers). The empirical study is based on a deep collaboration with a Scottish SME that supplies outsourced bottling and packaging services to the Scotch Whisky industry through a seven-year longitudinal qualitative inquiry. This study finds that open strategy phenomenon is classified into transparent, participatory and inclusive practices. These nested open strategy practices are enacted progressively as particular events are unfolding during organizational lifecycle and renewal processes. Sustaining temporal openness in strategy is underpinned by important boundary readying practices in SMEs.

    Creators(s): Ates, Aylin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-5519; Andersen, Torben Juul, Torp, Simon and Linder, Stefan
    Item type:Book Section
    ID code:65880
    Keywords:open strategy, renewal processes, small and medium-sized enterprise, strategy practices, adaptability, inclusiveness, Management. Industrial Management, Business and International Management
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
    Strategic Research Themes > Innovation Entrepreneurship
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:29 Oct 2018 12:31
    Last modified:27 Jan 2021 10:02
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/65880
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