Planned or Emergent Strategy Making? Exploring the Formation of Corporate Sustainability Strategies
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- 作者：Friederike Neugebauer ; Frank Figge and Tobias Hahn
- 刊名：Business Strategy and the Environment
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：25
- 期：5
- 页码：323-336
- 全文大小：233K
- ISSN：1099-0836
文摘
In strategy research, there is a consensus that strategy making resides on a continuum from planned to emergent where most strategies are made in a mixed way. Different contingency factors have been suggested to explain the factors that influence strategy making. Sustainability research seems to overlook most of this development and assumes instead that sustainability strategies are made in a purely planned way. We contribute to a better understanding of the role of different strategy making modes for sustainability in three ways. First, we point to the bias towards planned strategy formation in sustainability research. Second, we propose a new contingency factor to help explain sustainability strategy making based on the nature of the problem addressed. Third, we discuss strategy making for different types of sustainability problems. We argue that planned strategy making is expected for salient and non-wicked problems while emergent strategy making is likely for non-salient and wicked problems. Copyright