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Conceptualizing the ‘de’–materializing characteristics of internal inclusion in crowdsourced open strategy

Mount, M.; Clegg, S.R.; Pitsis, T.S.

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M. Mount

S.R. Clegg



Abstract

The increasing ubiquity of interactive technologies such as crowdsourcing is one of the major forces underpinning the emerging concept of open strategy. The large-scale interactive functionality afforded by such technologies offers unparalleled possibilities for including actors across the entire organization in co-creative efforts to respond to strategic issues or shape the organization's strategy. However, the ability of all organizational actors to engage in the production and co-development of strategy ideas, which together constitute inclusion in open strategy, is hindered by the highly politicized, often secretive and organizationally complex arena through which strategy unfolds. In this conceptual paper, we address this issue by drawing on the strategy tools-in-use framework to explore the material characteristics of crowdsourcing that de-materialize the material barriers to inclusion in open strategy. Drawing on the information systems literature, we argue that characteristics of anonymity, parallelism, group memory, process structuring and information processing are important material enablers of inclusion in open strategy.

Citation

Mount, M., Clegg, S., & Pitsis, T. (2020). Conceptualizing the ‘de’–materializing characteristics of internal inclusion in crowdsourced open strategy. Long Range Planning, 53(5), Article 101986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2020.101986

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 14, 2020
Online Publication Date Mar 18, 2020
Publication Date 2020-10
Deposit Date Mar 15, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Long Range Planning
Print ISSN 0024-6301
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 53
Issue 5
Article Number 101986
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2020.101986
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1306049

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