The attention-based view (ABV) has highlighted the role of organizational attention in strategic decision making and adaptation. The tendency to view communication channels as “pipes and prisms” for information processing has, however, limited its ability to address strategic change. We propose a broader role for communication as a process by which actors can attend to and engage with organizational and environmental issues and initiatives and argue that such a view can significantly advance understanding of strategic change. On this basis, we offer suggestions for future research on communication practices, vocabularies, rhetorical tactics, and talk and text in shaping organizational attention in strategic change. We also maintain that this enhanced view of the ABV can help advance research on dynamic capabilities, strategy processes, strategy-as-practice, and behavioral strategy.
Building on our review of the strategy process and practice research, we identify three ways to see the relationships between the two research traditions: complementary, critical, and combinatory views. We adopt in this special issue the combinatory view, in which activities and processes are seen as closely intertwined aspects of the same phenomena. It is this view that we argue offers both strategy practice and strategy process scholars some of the greatest opportunities for joint research going forward. We develop a combinatory framework for understanding strategy processes and practices (SAPP) and based on that call for more research on (a) temporality, (b) actors and agency, (c) cognition and emotionality, (d) materiality and tools, (e) structures and systems, and (f) language and meaning.
Im Zivilprozess ist zwischen der materiellen und der formellen Wahrheit zu unterscheiden. Gesucht wird zwar grundsätzlich nach der materiellen Wahrheit. Sie kann aber nur im Rahmen der prozessualen Regeln gefunden werden. Entscheidend ist damit die formelle Wahrheit.
To support customers' shopping processes, retailers should take into account (1) the assortment size and (2) the categorization of shelves.
We show in a field setting that both instruments simplify shopping processes. A combination of both shows the most positive outcome.
Although cross-border shopping has enormous impacts on many economies, it has not been investigated from a consumers' perspective. We show that cross-border shoppers feel inner conflicts that affect their purchase behaviors. Public policy makers can influence these conflicts by actively communicating the reasons for price differences in neighboring countries.
