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Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia

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...

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Main Authors: Hodgkinson, Ian R., Hughes, Paul, Arshad, Darwina
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2015
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/17199/
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.07.002
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spelling my.uum.repo.171992016-04-14T00:50:39Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17199/ Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia Hodgkinson, Ian R. Hughes, Paul Arshad, Darwina HD28 Management. Industrial Management 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 Elsevier Ltd 2015-08-06 Article PeerReviewed Hodgkinson, Ian R. and Hughes, Paul and Arshad, Darwina (2015) Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia. Journal of World Business. ISSN 1090-9516 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.07.002 doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2015.07.002
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Utara Malaysia
content_source UUM Institutionali Repository
url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Hodgkinson, Ian R.
Hughes, Paul
Arshad, Darwina
Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
description 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
format Article
author Hodgkinson, Ian R.
Hughes, Paul
Arshad, Darwina
author_facet Hodgkinson, Ian R.
Hughes, Paul
Arshad, Darwina
author_sort Hodgkinson, Ian R.
title Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
title_short Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
title_full Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
title_fullStr Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia
title_sort strategy development: driving improvisation in malaysia
publisher Elsevier Ltd
publishDate 2015
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/17199/
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.07.002
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