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Investigating Strategic Renewal of Five Large Dutch Financial Services Firms (2004) Open access

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Titel Investigating Strategic Renewal of Five Large Dutch Financial Services Firms
Auteur Flier, B. (Bert); Bosch, van den F.A.J. (Frans); Volberda, H.W. (Henk); Baden-Fuller, C.W.F. (Charles)
Datum 2004-06-29
Trefwoord(en) strategic renewal, competence building vs. competence leveraging, financial services firms
Taal Engels
Type working paper
Samenvatting How do large well-established firms renew themselves in an increasing turbulent environment? Is there a generic pattern of change or is each change journey rather idiosyncratic? We posed five questions about the nature of renewal patterns. First, how do firms combine external versus internal initiatives in a trajectory of strategic renewal? Second, how does the balance of competence building and competence leveraging evolve in a trajectory of strategic renewal? Third, what are the sequences of action in a strategic renewal process? Fourth, do firms differ regarding speed of their renewal processes? Finally, do different strategic renewal trajectories give rise to different of similar outcomes? Using a simple framework and new metrics we described and analyzed the strategic renewal journeys of the five largest financial service firms in the Netherlands during the period 1990-1997. We found equifinality in viable trajectories of strategic renewal. In four out of five firms, they result in similar outcomes due to mimetic behaviour. Nonetheless, one firm showed deviant strategic behaviour.
Publicatie http://hdl.handle.net/1765/1347
Persistent Identifier urn:NBN:nl:ui:15-1765/1347
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Repository Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

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