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Woolley, Sarah Jane (2020) Constructing participation to strategic threat. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
My thesis explores the practices that a hospital Top Management Team (TMT) used to construct participation across their membership, as they responded to a crisis situation, precipitated by the need to mediate demands from their external regulators. My observations showed that the TMT group constructed participation differently, according to the situational contexts they faced; these alternate participation practices were associated with the emergence of different strategizing responses, as the group responded to these regulatory demands. I have used a group sociology lens to develop a model of participation in strategizing that describes three interconnected participation practices: boundary defining; commitment assigning and; conversation constructing. My findings showed that the alternate configuration, combined with the sustained ongoing performance of these practices, resulted in different forms of participation, which I call retro-active, proactive and contested participating. I found that these variant practices emerged from the group’s negotiations related to the interplay between expectations present in the TMT’s external organizational environment, their shared group concerns and their individual accountabilities and expertise.
My work complements and extends existing work on participation in strategy making (Laine and Vaara, 2015; Mantere and Vaara, 2008), by showing the situated dynamics of participation on the ground and exposing the way that different participation practices are selected, integrated, and performed over time. My observations highlight the complex interplay between the way the group’s participation practices are configured, in relation to their local socio-material organizing context and the wider social structures, in which they are embedded.
In conjunction with this, my findings cast new light on the roles TMTs play during strategizing, by showing that TMT members play an active role in implementing organizational strategies, rather than just designing and developing strategy, as tends to be assumed in the strategic management literature.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Senior leadership teams, Participation, Hospitals -- Administration, Hospitals -- Risk management, Strategic planning | ||||
Official Date: | March 2020 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Currie, Graeme ; Croft, Charlotte | ||||
Sponsors: | Warwick Business School ; National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) | ||||
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Extent: | 277 leaves : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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