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 …

Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process

KL Pettit, J Balogun, M Bennett - Organization Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper draws on a longitudinal, qualitative study to develop an empirically grounded
model of strategic change as a future-making process. We provide an alternative to linear …

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 …

How orchestration both generates and reduces polyphony in narrative strategy-making

E Vaara, A Rantakari - Organization Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although we have seen a growing interest in participatory strategy-making, there is a paucity
of knowledge about the role of polyphony and how it may be orchestrated. Our longitudinal …

From iron cage to glass house: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness

C Brandtner, WW Powell, A Horvath - Organization Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although many contemporary organizations face institutional pressures to embrace open
organizing principles, some defer or decline the call. We examine how existing bureaucratic …

Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing

JS Vandeventer, J Lloveras… - Organization …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the context of debates about organizational space, this paper undertakes a
multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing. Drawing on an extensive …

Exploring competitive intelligence through the lens of managerial openness: a literature review and future research agenda

Z Kettani, L Garreau, A Belemlih - XXXIIIème conférence de l'AIMS …, 2024 - hal.science
To remain competitive in today's dynamic business environment, organizations are
constantly required to develop strategic use of sensible information, which is the role of …

[PDF][PDF] Open strategy through interconnectedness of strategy and organisational identity

I Mustakallio - 2024 - erepo.uef.fi
This dissertation examines open strategy making within an organisation where the entire
organisation is involved in strategy making. The aim of this research is to increase …

Signification of negative space in social reality: future-making and sense-giving through invisibilities

P Huhtaniemi - 2024 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Utilising negative space in strategic ways provides new ways of utilising sense-giving and
future-making. By identifying relevant sense-giving opportunities and effective future-making …