Top Teams and Strategy in a UK University
Top Teams and Strategy in a UK University
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英国大学的顶尖团队和策略
DOI：
10.1111/1467-6486.00296
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
D. Wilson
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作者：
P. Jarzabkowski;D. Wilson
本文报告了对英国一所大学的高层管理团队(TMT)如何将战略付诸实践的深入研究结果。对华威大学顶尖团队进行了一项研究，以分析战略是如何制定和实施的。结果表明，两个广泛的理论透镜的组合提供了有用的分析洞察力。这就是作为实践的战略和作为过程的战略。这所大学战略的主要要素来自于组织背景下的本地化惯例和行动模式的相互作用，这既产生了这种行动，也是这种行动的产物。TMT本身被发现是明显可识别和成分稳定的。该团队展示了可识别的战略思维和行动模式。然而，组织结构的作用也被发现对TMT的行动和进程具有关键影响，团队中强烈的中央控制倾向被下放给各个部门的业务控制所抵消。这些数据还揭示了组织结构和TMT在四个关键领域的相互关系：方向确定、监测和控制、资源分配和互动过程。总体结论是，为了理解战略是如何实施的，分析需要关注行动模式如何与团队和更广泛的组织的特征相关联。这些模式的性质和特点可能与战略如何实施有关。
This paper reports on the results of an in-depth study of how a top management team (TMT) puts strategy into practice in a UK university. A study of the top team in Warwick University was conducted to analyse how strategy was formulated and implemented. The results suggest that a combination of two broad theoretical lenses provides useful analytical insight. These are strategy as practice and strategy as process. The main elements of this university's strategy result from an interplay of localized routines and patterns of action within an organizational context, which both produces and is a product of such actions. The TMT itself was found to be clearly identifiable and stable in composition. The team exhibited identifiable patterns of strategic thinking and acting. However, the role of organizational structure was also found to be a key influence on the actions and processes of the TMT with strong central control tendencies in the team being counterbalanced by devolved operational control to individual departments. The data also reveal inter-relationships between organizational structures and the TMT in four key areas: direction-setting, monitoring and control, the allocation of resources, and processes of interaction. The overall conclusion is that to understand how strategy is practised, analysis needs to focus on how patterns of action are associated with the characteristics of both the team and the wider organization. The nature and characteristics of these patterns can be related to how strategy is put into practice.