TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategic agility through improvisational capabilities
T2 - implications for a paradox-sensitive HRM
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina E
AU - Gomes, Emanuel
AU - Mellahi, Kamel
AU - Miner, Anne
AU - Rego, Arménio
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - strategy
KW - improvisation
KW - strategic agility
KW - paradox
KW - paradoxical human resource management
KW - MNCs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067289299&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100695
DO - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100695
M3 - Article
SN - 1053-4822
VL - 30
JO - Human Resource Management Review
JF - Human Resource Management Review
IS - 1
M1 - 100695
ER -