Dynamic Interaction between Strategy and Organization: Strategic Drift by Organizational Processes

该项目在2007财政年度产生的贡献是双重的。首先，该项目在战略研究的背景下，如定位观点和基于资源的观点，澄清和定位了“战略漂移研究”。第二，阐述了20世纪80年代初至90年代达到顶峰的日本战略实证研究的脉络。关于第一点，本研究将“战略漂移研究”定位于战略研究的两种相互冲突的观点，即定位观和资源观的语境理论发展过程中。战略漂移研究是一种更大的研究链条，强调组织成员和其他主体之间的社会互动。本研究具有动态化的视角，这是定位视角和资源基础观所缺失的。第二，明确了日本实证研究者对战略过程的研究思路。从20世纪70年代末到90年代，野中郁次郎、伊塔米广幸和香野忠雄教授都是这一领域的杰出人物。该项目认为，他们的学术贡献对基于资源的观点的形成有非常重要的影响，但他们贡献的要点(即，研究关键参与者之间的动态互动，以及他们对强烈理性行为的意外后果的积极探索)并没有对RBV产生重大影响。这将催生新一代研究人员在不久的将来承担这类研究。

The contribution this project produced in fiscal 2007 was twofold. First, the project clarified and positioned "research on strategic drift' in the context of strategy research, e.g., Positioning View and Resource-based View. Second, the project explicated the strand of Japanese empirical research on strategy that was originated around the early 1980s and culminated in 1990s.As regards the first point, the project positioned "research on strategic drift" in the context theory development process of conflicting viewpoints on strategy research, i.e., Positioning View and Resource-based View. The research on strategic drift is a kind of a larger research strand that emphasizes social interactions among organizational members and other agents. The research has a dynamic point of view, which is missing in both Positioning view and Resource-based View. And, there remains much room for further research in the area of strategic drift.Second, the project clarified the research strand of the Japanese empirical researchers on strategy process. Professors Ikujiro NONAKA, Hiroyuki ITAMI, and Tadao KAGONO have been the outstanding figures in this field from the late 1970s through 1990s. The Project contends that their academic contributions have very important impact on the formation of Resource-based View, but the essential point of their contribution (i.e., research on dynamic interactions among key players and their vigorous search for unintended consequences of intendedly rational actions) has not made major impact on the RBV. This will precipitate newer generation of researchers to undertake this kind of research in the near future.