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

该项目在2007财年产生的贡献是双重的。首先，项目将“战略漂移研究”置于战略研究的语境中进行明确定位，如定位观、资源基础观。其次，该项目阐述了日本战略实证研究的脉络，这一脉络起源于20世纪80年代初，并在90年代达到顶峰。关于第一点，本项目将“战略漂移研究”定位于战略研究观点（定位观和资源基础观）相互冲突的理论发展过程中。战略漂移研究是一个更大的研究分支，它强调组织成员和其他代理人之间的社会互动。该研究具有动态视角，这是定位视角和资源基础视角所欠缺的。而且，在战略漂移领域仍有很大的研究空间。第二，梳理了日本实证研究者对战略过程的研究脉络。野中郁次郎教授、伊丹博之教授、冈野忠雄教授是20世纪70年代末至90年代这一领域的杰出人物。本项目认为，他们的学术贡献对资源基础观的形成产生了重要影响，但其贡献的要点（即对关键参与者之间动态互动的研究以及对有意理性行为的意外后果的积极探索）并未对资源基础观产生重大影响。这将促使新一代的研究人员在不久的将来从事这类研究。

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.