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Strategy development: driving improvisation in Malaysia
journal contribution
posted on 2015-09-25, 11:27 authored by Ian HodgkinsonIan Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes, Darwina A. ArshadImprovisation is vital for strategy development, but there remains a lack of understanding about this phenomenon. This emerges directly from the insufficient investigation of its drivers and context. This paper extends improvisation research to the unexplored competitive settings of an emerging middle-income economy. Drawing on survey data from Malaysian research-intensive firms, we examine managerial and organisational antecedents of improvisation under turbulence. Findings reveal that organisational risk-taking and manager expertise are common antecedents of improvisation, but additional relationships arise under high (flexibility) and low turbulence (learning, manager tenure), developing capacity to inform practice, which is critically lacking in international business and management theory.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Journal of World BusinessVolume
51Issue
3Pages
379 - 390Citation
HODGKINSON, I.R., HUGHES, P. and ARSHAD, D.A., 2016. Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia. Journal of World Business, 51(3), pp.379-390.Publisher
© Elsevier B.V.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015-08-06Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of World Business and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.07.002ISSN
1090-9516Publisher version
Language
- en