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Strategy development: driving improvisation in Malaysia

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posted on 2015-09-25, 11:27 authored by Ian HodgkinsonIan Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes, Darwina A. Arshad
Improvisation 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 Business

Volume

51

Issue

3

Pages

379 - 390

Citation

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

2015-08-06

Notes

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.2015.07.002

ISSN

1090-9516

Language

  • en