Publication

2006 - Division of Research, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

8,500 words, Guess

Page Count

34 pages

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Description

Motivated by real examples that run contrary to conventional wisdom, we examine how firms organize themselves to strategize well. Interactions among decisions make strategizing difficult. They raise the specter that a firm's strategizing efforts will get stuck in a web of conflicting constraints prematurely, before managers explore a wide enough range of possibilities. A key role of organizing is to free strategizing efforts and encourage broad search. At the same time, organizing must ensure that strategizing efforts stabilize once the firm discovers an effective set of choices. The need to balance search and stability, we argue, is a central challenge of organizing. We explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation of firms that organize to strategize in the face of interactions.

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Series Statement

  • Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 06-027

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