Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102561
Tomi Laamanen , Ann-Kristin Weiser , Georg von Krogh , William Ocasio
{"title":"Artificial intelligence in adaptive strategy creation and implementation: Toward enhanced attentional control in strategy processes","authors":"Tomi Laamanen , Ann-Kristin Weiser , Georg von Krogh , William Ocasio","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article focuses on the deployment of proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) systems in strategy creation and implementation processes, with a specific focus on their role in enhancing organizational attentional control. By employing the attention-based view (ABV) as an overarching theoretical framework, we examine how company-specific AI systems trained on proprietary data can support strategy processes. We identify three key contributions of AI in strategy creation and implementation processes: (1) broadening organizational attention to external and internal developments, (2) democratizing strategic processes through improved transparency and inclusivity, and (3) accelerating feedback loops with real-time monitoring of strategy implementation progress. Potential challenges associated with the deployment of AI systems for attentional control are also addressed. The paper concludes by putting forward potential directions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102561"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144341049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102531
Rodolphe Durand, Pauline Asmar
{"title":"Is team commitment related to dialogue about corporate purpose?","authors":"Rodolphe Durand, Pauline Asmar","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102531","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102531","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the relationship between communication regarding a firm's purpose between a team leader and individual team members (referred to as “purpose dialogue”) and the resulting levels of team commitment. We hypothesize that increased dialogue about purpose will lead to higher team commitment by enhancing consensus on the team's tasks and objectives. We also expect that this relationship will be negatively moderated by the variation in leader-member exchange quality (that undermines this consensus) and positively by autonomy given by leaders to individual team members (which reinforces it.) Using data from 469 firms and 57,440 individual observations, we find support for our hypotheses across different specifications. This paper contributes to research on corporate purpose at the team level, leader-member exchange theory, and management practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102531"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102560
Catherine Archambault Janvier , Wim Van Lent , Jörg Sydow
{"title":"Breaking organizational paths for strategic renewal: Towards a dialectical perspective","authors":"Catherine Archambault Janvier , Wim Van Lent , Jörg Sydow","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Strategic renewal is key to organizations' long-term success, but may be difficult to achieve if they are locked into a particular action path. Unfortunately, breaking organizational paths remains somewhat elusive due to a binary opposition in the strategic renewal literature between path breaking and path dependence, which hampers more complex process theorization. Asking what roles path breaking and path dependence exactly play in strategic renewal, we perform an in-depth case study of path-breaking interventions at fashion retailer Kiabi. This firm gradually moved from a path of disintegrative to integrative collaborative alignment between departments, whereby adaptive expectations regarding others’ willingness to collaborate gradually improved. Chiefly, we find that strategic renewal is a function of two concurrent dialectics: 1) between path-breaking interventions and relapses into old path-dependent tendencies; and 2) between initiatives by upper management and their firm-wide implementation. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that organizational path dependence, through managerial reflection and action, can be integral to path breaking, and, more broadly, strategic renewal. Furthermore, we extend common notions of managerial agency in path breaking by highlighting the involvement of various hierarchical layers, while, paradoxically, we relax the strong assumption of managerial agency that exists in studies on open strategy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102560"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102562
Saeedeh Ahmadi , Tom Mom , Alexander Schmidt , Henk Volberda
{"title":"Multiple goal conflicts and exploratory innovation: Does alignment between team and organization help or hurt?","authors":"Saeedeh Ahmadi , Tom Mom , Alexander Schmidt , Henk Volberda","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the varying impacts of multiple goal conflicts on employees' exploratory innovative behaviors. Although innovation is vital for an organization's survival and competitive advantage, the simultaneous pursuit of other goals may create goal conflicts for employees: increasing pressure on their scarce resources, including time and cognitive capacity. While much of the existing research discusses goal conflicts in general or emphasizes their negative performance consequences, we extend this literature by theorizing about two distinct ways individuals may interpret goal conflicts—either as a trade-off (e.g., innovation vs. revenue) or as complementary (e.g., innovation vs. safety)—and how these interpretations affect exploratory innovation. Moreover, we theorize that team–organization alignment moderates these effects. Our findings, based on multilevel, multisource, time-lagged data from a large energy company, indicate that conflicts involving innovation goals do not uniformly impact employee exploratory behavior. Increasing levels of conflict between innovation and safety goals are associated with employees conducting more innovation activities, but the expected negative effect of innovation-revenue conflicts is insignificant. Moreover, in a context of high alignment the innovation-safety conflict triggers employees to innovate more; in contrast, for the innovation-revenue conflict it is the opposite. Our study offers important implications for the literature on multiple goal conflict and highlights the critical roles of employees and their alignment with senior leadership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102562"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102540
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero , Yancy Vaillant , Oscar F. Bustinza
{"title":"Scalability in incumbent firms: The case of Nvidia","authors":"Ferran Vendrell-Herrero , Yancy Vaillant , Oscar F. Bustinza","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102540","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scalability refers to the organizational capabilities required to facilitate a smoother and faster scaling process. Although it is usually associated with new ventures, this study explores how established firms can also create conditions conducive to scalability. We address this question by applying an inductive, narrative-based approach to a longitudinal, single-case study of Nvidia Corporation, a company founded in 1993 that since 2006 has undergone a profound transformation driven by the AI revolution. This case study draws on digital archives, including objective accounting information on Nvidia and its direct competitors, extensive company reports, pedagogical case studies, corporate biographies, and 464 min of recorded documentaries and interviews featuring the company's CEO. We use these sources to develop a multi-phase theoretical model outlining how established organizations can foster scalability. The model encompasses value recognition driven by systemic industry transitions, organizational adaptability, strategic renewal, and scalability, thus offering a structured framework for understanding how incumbent firms can cultivate the necessary conditions for successful scaling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102540"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102535
Dennis van Kampen , Hans Berends , Fleur Deken
{"title":"Strategies for addressing customers’ adaptation problems in the healthcare ecosystem","authors":"Dennis van Kampen , Hans Berends , Fleur Deken","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how an innovating firm can address adaptation problems encountered within an existing ecosystem without a central orchestrator. Lacking control over key interdependencies between customers and other actors, such firms must make strategic choices about how to address adaptation problems. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative study of the commercialization process of three innovations within an incumbent healthcare firm, we find that customer adoption was particularly hampered by existing interdependencies between customers and IT system providers and insurers. We identify three strategies—delegating, attuning, and facilitating—that firms use to tackle customer adaptation problems. Each strategy involves distinct trade-offs between control, learning, and cost, and their selection depends on both internal resource fit and external conditions. We discuss implications of our findings for the governance and problem-focused capabilities of firms innovating within established ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102535"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102539
Juan Santalo , Igor Filatotchev
{"title":"Strategic governance of blockchain platforms: From centralized to open source control systems","authors":"Juan Santalo , Igor Filatotchev","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This perspective article focuses on blockchain platforms as new forms of organization and governance within the decision-making centralization/decentralization continuum. It aims to address the following research questions: How does the context of blockchain and community-based governance creates new theoretical challenges regarding the traditional centralization/decentralization debate in corporate governance? What are the main cost-benefit trade-offs regarding (de) centralization of decision-making process in a blockchain platform's organizational “ecosystem”? The paper outlines the blockchain platforms' governance spectrum that ranges from a high degree of centralization to an “open source” governance model. This is followed by a discussion of drivers of governance models including an interface between platform-specific investment and heterogeneity of platform participants. The paper concludes with an outline of implications for future research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 102539"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144190359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of CEO social capital on turnaround success","authors":"Florian Behling, Jan-Hendrik Meier, Jochen Zimmermann","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102570","url":null,"abstract":"This study extends current knowledge on the role of the CEO in turnaround management. Drawing from upper echelons and resource dependence theories, we analyze how the turnaround performance of declining firms is influenced by CEO social capital, measured as CEO networks extending to other top executives. Using an international, multisectoral matched-pair sample of 142 firms that have faced decline, we show that a CEO's executive network is associated with a higher likelihood of turnaround success and better performance of the firm. Our study contributes to turnaround research and has practical implications for equity and debt investors as well as top managers.","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"18 1","pages":"102570"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102528
Hyundo Choi
{"title":"Sourcing smart through project manager structures: The role of managerial direction multiplicity in Korean popular music industry","authors":"Hyundo Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Internal development project organizations are likely to have a pre-defined internal goal to optimize the use of internal resources while joint development project organizations tend to have a flexible goal to take advantage of diverse external resources. In this situation, the managerial direction multiplicity of project managers (i.e., convergent or multi-faceted directions) reflected in their organizational structures can affect the effectiveness of sourcing strategy differently. Three key structural components of project managers—project manager group size, prior interactions among project managers, and managerial authority split—were chosen to examine their impact on project market performance by two sourcing strategies. Empirical evidence from the Korean popular music (K-Pop) industry for the period 2004–2013 at the album project-level supports that project manager structures offering multi-faceted directions improve project market performance more for joint development projects, while those offering convergent directions improve performance more for internal development projects. This study highlights the importance of project manager structures in sourcing strategies by theorizing managerial direction multiplicity as a key mechanism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 102528"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143785960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Range PlanningPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509
Daniel Ehnes , Lars Schweizer , Cornelia Storz
{"title":"Labour-cost retrenchment strategies in times of crisis: Comparing market reactions to flexible and rigid strategies","authors":"Daniel Ehnes , Lars Schweizer , Cornelia Storz","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Guided by an institutionally embedded resource-based view, this paper addresses two under-researched questions. First, what effects do flexible strategies for labor-cost retrenchment (e.g., wage-based and functional flexibility) have on firms' market value as compared with rigid strategies (such as pure downsizing)? Second, what effects do flexible strategies have, compared to rigid strategies, when firms have a high level of knowledge assets? We answer these questions by focusing on firms in the research context of a stakeholder-capitalism environment. The dearth of studies on flexible strategies is surprising when one considers that firms in many advanced economies deploy them widely to reduce labor costs during times of crisis. We address this research gap with a novel data set of 220 retrenchment announcements by Japanese firms. We find that announcing the adoption of flexible strategies is significantly and positively associated with a greater likelihood of the firm’s market value increasing. Further, flexible strategies are evaluated more positively if they protect knowledge assets. We attribute these effects to flexible strategies being perceived not only as a capability but also as a legitimacy signal – that is, as an effort to maintain capabilities in an environment characterized by long-term in-house employment and to align with the norms of the broader institutional landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 102509"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143636865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}