Off to Plan or Out to Lunch? Relationships between Design Characteristics and Outcomes of Strategy Workshops

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 sci...

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Vydané v:British journal of management Ročník 26; číslo 3; s. 507 - 528
Hlavní autori: Healey, Mark P., Hodgkinson, Gerard P., Whittington, Richard, Johnson, Gerry
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: London Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2015
Blackwell Publ
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Cognition
Integrated approach
Organizational effectiveness
Retreats
Strategic planning
Strategies
Studies
Workshops
ISSN:1045-3172, 1467-8551
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Shrnutí: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.
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ISSN:1045-3172
1467-8551
DOI:10.1111/1467-8551.12038