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Healey, Mark P., Hodgkinson, Gerard P., Whittington, Richard and Johnson, Gerry (2015) Off to plan or out to lunch? Relationships between design characteristics and outcomes of strategy workshops. British Journal of Management, 26 (3). pp. 507-528. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12038 ISSN 1045-3172.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12038
Abstract
Strategy workshops, also known as away days, strategy retreats and strategic 'off-sites', have become widespread in organizations. However, there is a shortage of theory and evidence concerning the outcomes of these events and the factors that contribute to their effectiveness. Adopting a design science approach, in this paper we propose and test a multidimensional model that differentiates the effects of strategy workshops in terms of organizational, interpersonal and cognitive outcomes. Analysing survey data on over 650 workshops, we demonstrate that varying combinations of four basic design characteristics – clarity of goals and purpose, routinization, stakeholder involvement and cognitive effort – predict differentially these three distinct types of outcomes. Calling into question conventional wisdom on the design of workshops, we discuss the implications of our findings for integrating further the strategy process, strategy-as-practice and strategic cognition literatures, to enrich understanding of the factors that shape the nature and influence of contemporary strategic planning activities more generally.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business planning | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Management | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1045-3172 | ||||||
Official Date: | July 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 507-528 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8551.12038 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 February 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 February 2016 | ||||||
Funder: | Advanced Institute of Management Research (Great Britain) (AIM), Millman Research Fund | ||||||
Grant number: | RES-331-25-0028 (AIM), RES-331-25-0015 (AIM) |
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