Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'
Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'
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材料制品：用“东西”制定策略的实践
DOI：
10.1016/j.emj.2012.09.001
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Jarzabkowski P
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作者：
Jarzabkowski P
这篇论文阐述了对物质人工制品的研究的缺乏，以及它们是如何参与战略活动的。基于战略即实践的视角和认知对象的概念，我们开发了战略实践的类型学，展示了管理者如何通过知识抽象和替代的双重过程使用物质工件来制定战略。实证研究了再保险公司核保经理的实践。我们的发现首先确定了这些经理用来评估再保险交易的人工制品——图片、地图、数据包、电子表格和图表。其次，对每个工件的定位使用的分析导致了对工件执行策略的五种实践的识别：具体化、定位、列举、分析和选择。最后，我们开发了一个类型学，它显示了实践是如何从被再保险的风险的物理属性的抽象级别变化的，并通过替代过程展开。我们的概念框架扩展了战略作为实践领域的现有工作，该领域要求对材料工件的作用进行研究。
This paper addresses the dearth of research into material artifacts and how they are engaged in strategizing activities. Building on the strategy-as-practice perspective, and the notion of epistemic objects, we develop a typology of strategy practices that show how managers use material artifacts to strategize by a dual process of knowledge abstraction and substitution. Empirically, we study the practice of underwriting managers in reinsurance companies. Our findings first identify the artifacts – pictures, maps, data packs, spreadsheets and graphs – that these managers use to appraise reinsurance deals. Second, the analysis of each artifact’s situated use led to the identification of five practices for doing strategy with artifacts: physicalizing, locating, enumerating, analyzing, and selecting. Last, we developed a typology that shows how practices vary in terms of their level of abstraction from the physical properties of the risk being reinsured and unfold through a process of substituting. Our conceptual framework extends existing work in the strategy-as-practice field that calls for research into the role of material artifacts.