报告题目：Strategic Renewal Processes in Foreign Expansion
报告人：Prof. Rian Drogendijk，Faculty of Economics and Business, Groningen University
报告时间：2019年11月21日下午2：00-3：00
报告地点：中国科学院大学中关村校区青年公寓6号楼第一会议室
Abstract:Strategic renewal involves breaking with path dependency and it is therefore especially challenging for large and multinational firms. We studied how the interaction between top-down and bottom-up initiatives drives strategic renewal, using rich data collected through a longitudinal, partly real-time case study of a strategic renewal process by one large multinational company. We identified how tensions, resulting from the interaction of renewal initiatives, specifically concerned the organization’s resource distribution, its strategic and technological identity, and routines. We further uncover how these tensions and their resolutions (or lack thereof) shaped the dynamics of the strategic renewal process, bringing the organization in a continuous and dynamic state of non-equilibrium. We thus identify tensions as mechanisms that allow for deep-level learning and exploration of core strategic properties of the organization.
Short bio:Rian Drogendijk is an associate professor of International Business. Her research interests include the internationalization of (multinational) companies, strategic renewal and corporate entrepreneurship in multinationals, and concepts and measurements of culture and distance in an international perspective. She has published in leading journals in the field of International Business like the Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review and Management International Review. Before joining the University of Groningen in 2014, Rian Drogendijk worked at the department of business studies at Uppsala University. In 2014, she organized the 40th Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). Rian has served as Director of the MSc. programme International Business and Management (IB&M) in Groningen. Since January 2019, she is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Groningen, with responsibility for the research master and doctoral education of the faculty.
