Strategic agility through improvisational capabilities: implications for a paradox-sensitive HRM
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Authors
External organisations
- Nova School of Business and Economics
- Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Wisconsin School of Business University of Wisconsin
- Católica Porto Business School Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto and eBusiness Research Unit (UNIDE-IUL) Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Abstract
Organizations, especially, multinationals, inevitably confront contradictory challenges. One crucial challenge is the value of strategic consistency versus the value of rapid change related to unexpected problems, opportunities and fast moving trends. Accentuating the previously planned strategy can reduce temporal responsiveness; accentuating the immediate problems/opportunities can harm overall consistency. Strategic agility offers a potential path to resolve this paradoxical situation. In this article we advance a vision in which firms nourish improvisational capabilities in order to enhance strategic agility. We develop six HRM domains of action that can enhance effective improvisation and can inform the practice of a paradox-informed HRM. We discuss their implications for HRM-based strategic agility, paradoxical HR, and improvisation.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 100695 |
Journal | Human Resource Management Review |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 17 Jun 2019 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2020 |
Keywords
- strategy, improvisation, strategic agility, paradox, paradoxical human resource management, MNCs