Organizational inscriptions of network pictures: A meso-level analysis
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Summary, in English
This paper deals with organizational inscriptions of managerial cognitions elaborating on the emerging concept of network pictures. While previous studies on network pictures have concentrated on individual managers' cognitive views of business networks, this study operates on a focal company level (meso-level) and is concerned with how managerial cognitions are manifested in organizational artifacts, which in turn guide business activities. The paper presents a typological model of traces of such inscriptions, which, thereby, becomes a means to capture managers' interactive sense-making of a company's network. We identify organizational inscriptions of managerial cognitions in the areas of strategy, organization, systems, processes, and budgets. Using a comparative-static case study involving mergers and acquisitions of a focal company over time, we exemplify the different organizational inscriptions.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1270-1283
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Industrial Marketing Management
Volym
41
Issue
8
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Business Administration
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0019-8501