Session Summary

Session Number:397
Session ID:S310
Session Title:Organizing/Strategizing
Short Title:
Session Type:Division Symposium
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:LL2
Room:Acapulco
Time:Tuesday, August 10, 1999 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Sponsors

BPS  (Ming-Jer Chen)BPS99@wharton.upenn.edu (215) 898-0018 

General People

Chair Pettigrew, Andrew  U. of Warwick ccscap@wbs.warwick.ac.uk 44 1203 523 523 
Discussant Hinings, C. R. U. of Alberta chinings@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca 403-492-2801 

Submissions

Organizing/Strategizing 
Presenter Richard, Whittington  Said Business School, U. of Oxford richard.whittington@sbs.ox.ac.uk 44 1865 228470 
Change Journeys: Processes, Sequencing and Complementarities 
Presenter van den Bosch, Frans A. J. Erasmus U., Rotterdam fbosch@fac.fbk.eur.nl (31) 10 408 1955 
Internationalisation Strategies and Modes of Organising 
Presenter Sanchez-Runde, Carlos  IESE, U. of Navarra, Barcelona csanchez@iese.edu 34-93-253.42.00 
Organizing is Strategizing 
Presenter Melin, Leif  Jonkoping U. leif.melin@ihh.hj.se 46 36 15 64 46 

Abstract

This Symposium will present empirical results and theoretical developments from the international INNFORM research programme on innovative forms of organizing. The title of the Symposium expresses two key ideas: the gerundives stress the importance of process and change in the contemporary competitive environment; the oblique asserts the inextricably complementary nature of organizing and strategizing. The first paper outlines a theoretical framework for the following papers, examining the ideas of both strategizing as organizing and organizing as strategizing. It argues that the integrated notion of ‘organizing/strategizing’ both matches recent turns within the academy and addresses the contemporary challenges of knowledge management and sustainable advantage in practice. The second paper draws on four longitudinal case studies of large European firms to examine the change journeys involved in new ways of organizing and to consider the complementarities involved in these processes. The third paper combines a large-scale analysis of national, sectoral and business influences on organizing in internationalizing firms with illustrations of the multinational organizing process drawn from six multinationals. The final paper returns to the idea of organizing as strategizing to examine its implication for innovation, considered in the light of two in-depth longitudinal case studies. The session will include a contribution from a discussant and the opportunity for audience discussion.