دانلود رایگان مقاله شیوه تدوین استراتژی در محیط اقتصاد غیررسمی

Abstract

Despite the increasing interest in strategy as situated practice, studies that examine strategising practices in the informal economy are lacking. This article draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice to understand strategic networking practices in an informal economy setting. Employing ethnographic techniques, it sets out to study how an informal business and its network partners do strategic networking. We found that their strategic networking practices pivot around co-opetition, and are characterised within four interconnected themes: open communication, mutual surrogacy, fraternal engagement and naturalisation. These themes are constitutive of an interrelated set of field-specific practices, capital, habitus and dispositions of the informal business and its network partners. The study contributes to strategy-as-practice and strategic networking literature by showing how actors adopt and internalise strategising practices, and how this predisposition may be traced to strategic networking practices, choices and outcomes.

7. Conclusion and future directions

In conclusion, this study has addressed some of the calls in the SAP literature for more studies on the relational and structural linkages in strategising practices, as well those amongst strategic network scholars for the study of the strategic networking activity. More specifically, the study described SNP amongst businesses in an informal economy setting within four interrelated themes: open communication, mutual surrogacy, fraternal engagement and naturalisation. The paper outlines detailed activities that characterise each of these themes and shows how they reflect field-specific practices, capital, habitus and dispositions. More importantly, we illustrate the implicit role of agency and structure in constructing SNP. Our study shows that SNP by the informal business and their partners have generative mechanisms that shape how strategists internalise practices, which led to particular choices and outcomes. Contrary to previous studies conducted in creative industries (Dickson, Smith, & Woods, 1994; Shaw, 2006), co-opetition is salient in the SNP of the informal businesses. As such, other SNP are pivoted around this co-opetitive disposition (see also Damayanti, 2014). These extant works found that businesses did not network with competitors and attributed the reason to industry competition that engendered low trust amongst competitors. We have built on this interpretation and suggest that although the informal businesses we studied were also subject to similar industry influences, a broader set of intricately linked constraining and enabling structural factors embedded in the social context provide a richer explanation for these choices and outcomes. We thus conclude that an SAP perspective that attended to micro-level phenomena in context provided the fine-grained analytical tools for linking these strategy practices to their generative mechanisms