Plotnikova, A, Pandza, K orcid.org/0000-0002-6807-1812 and Whittington, R (2024) Bending the Pipes: Regaining Attention through Reinvention and Renewal. Strategic Organization, 22 (1). 165 -188. ISSN 1476-1270
Abstract
Organizations’ attention structures are traditionally perceived as stable “pipes and prisms” representing organizational communication and procedural channels. Changes in attention structures are typically attributed to top-down interventions. In this study, we extend the “dynamic Attention Based View” by demonstrating first that attention structures are plastic and second that they can be “bent” through bottom-up adaptations of communication channels previously designed from the top. Using a single case study of the large telecommunication corporation Ericsson, we show how mid-level organizational actors manifest distinct forms of agency in reacting to adverse changes in attention structures: projective agency and iterational agency. Organizational actors regain influence over the strategy-making process through two corresponding practices: reinvention (the projective agency of adding new channels) and renewal (the iterational agency of restoring old channels).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | behavioral strategy; open strategy; strategy as practice; strategy formulation; strategy process; topics and perspectives |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Strategy and Organisation (LUBS) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union PITN-GA-2009-238382 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2023 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 12:03 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14761270231184616 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200447 |