Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Business and Management.
Abstract
Despite the importance of marketing strategy making (MSM) we understand little of how strategy making actually occurs within organisations. Departing from the common focus - on the tools and techniques of strategy– we apply a strategy as practice (SAP) lens to our exploration of MSM. We adopt a problemistic search perspective and utilise an in-depth case study to explore individual’s interactions in developing strategic marketing initiatives. We uncover a three-stage pattern in solution search within MSM; identification of the problem situation and postponing response, to problem recognition and acceptance, to a collective problem solving stage, which we label pre implementation consultation. The paper’s main contribution is the development of an initial framework placing a pre-implementation phase between formal and emergent strategy, providing a dynamic theory of MSM.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/D7HJ4WIdentifier as URL:
Recommended Citation
Browne, S., Lawlor, K., Sharkey Scott, P., Cuddihy, L.: How do Organisations Engage in Marketing Strategy Making? A Problemistic Search Perspective. British Academy of Management Conference, 2012.
Publication Details
This paper has been accepted as a full paper for presentation within the strategy-as-practice track at the British Academy of Management Conference, 2012.