Business Agility: Key Themes and Future Directions

SJG Girod, J Birkinshaw… - California Management …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The need for business agility, that is, the capacity to adapt to changing external
circumstances (and even to shape them), is high on the agenda of executives around the …

Openness as organizing principle: Introduction to the special issue

V Splitter, L Dobusch, G von Krogh… - Organization …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
'Openness' has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing
set of organizational domains. However, discussions within these specialized domains (eg …

Heroes or villains? Recasting middle management roles, processes, and behaviours

M Tarakci, MLM Heyden, L Rouleau… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Middle management ranks are once again being questioned by scholars and practitioners
alike. This introduction to the special issue represents a timely reference point for …

Co-Creating Innovations with Users: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda for Project Management

E Sońta-Drączkowska, M Cichosz, P Klimas… - European Management …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to systematically review the extensive literature on user innovation co-
creation and connect the findings to the project management domain. It focused specifically …

Practicing secrecy in open innovation–The case of a military firm

J Langlois, S BenMahmoud-Jouini, R Servajean-Hilst - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to keep up with the pace of innovation, military firms have recently launched a series
of open innovation (OI) initiatives to search for and integrate external knowledge into their …

Interdiscursive struggles: Managing the co‐existence of the conventional and open strategy discourse

T Langenmayr, D Seidl, V Splitter - Strategic management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary “Open strategy” is a new macro discourse on strategy that
differs fundamentally from the conventional strategy discourse. In this paper, we examine …

Strategic practice drift: How open strategy infiltrates the strategy process

I Stjerne, J Geraldi, M Wenzel - Journal of Management Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper builds theory on the process of open‐strategy infiltration through an ethnographic
study investigating how open strategy entered a financial services firm's strategy process …

Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes

V Splitter, D Seidl, R Whittington - Strategic Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary Recent trends toward inclusive strategy processes raise the
issue of how employees acquire the discursive competence necessary to gain senior …

Scaling organizational agility: key insights from an incumbent firm's agile transformation

K Hutter, FM Brendgens, SP Gauster… - Management …, 2023 - emerald.com
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Taking individual choices seriously: A process perspective of self-selection in strategy work

M Friesl, C Brielmaier, L Dobusch - Organization Theory, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
An increasing body of work investigates the participation of a diverse set of actors in strategy
making. We argue that extant research tends to gloss over a fundamental condition …