Hodgkinson, Ian R. and Hughes, Paul and Arshad, Darwina (2015) Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia. Journal of World Business. ISSN 1090-9516

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Abstract

Improvisation is vital for strategy development, but there remains a lack of understanding about this phenomenon.This emerges directly from the insufficient investigation of its drivers and context.This paper extends improvisation research to the unexplored competitive settings of an emerging middle-income economy.Drawing on survey data from Malaysian research-intensive firms, we examine managerial and organisational antecedents of improvisation under turbulence.Findings reveal that organisational risk-taking and manager expertise are common antecedents of improvisation, but additional relationships arise under high (flexibility) and low turbulence (learning, manager tenure), developing capacity to inform practice, which is critically lacking in international business and management theory

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Emerging economy; Improvisation; Malaysia; Middle-income; Strategy; Turbulence
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions:	School of Business Management
Depositing User:	Dr. Darwina Hj. Ahmad Arshad
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2016 04:36
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2016 00:50
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17199

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