敏捷软件开发
跨国公司
动态能力
概念框架
业务
背景(考古学)
国际商务
知识管理
过程管理
相关性(法律)
战略管理
产业组织
营销
管理
计算机科学
社会学
政治学
经济
古生物学
生物
法学
社会科学
财务
作者
S. M. Riad Shams,Demetris Vrontis,Zhanna Belyaeva,Alberto Ferraris,Michael R. Czinkota
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.intman.2020.100737
摘要
Strategic agility is a fuzzy concept that may be counter intuitive as well as confounding to some scholars in terms of the agile strategies' contextual issues. At the same time, the need to be agile is crucial for firms, especially for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) that operate in culturally different host countries. Thus, a deep understanding of strategic agility is very intriguing for both academics and executives, as several gaps are apparent in the extant literature. In this paper, we review mainstream studies on agility in the international business context, discussing its relevance and proposing main aspects of strategic agility to clarify further this indistinct concept. Moreover, we provide a novel conceptual framework based on the integration of agility in different operational areas (e.g. Information Technology, supply chain and production) that organizations should foster to become an “agile multinational”. Our synthesis represents an innovative strategic direction for MNEs to understand better strategic agility, which clearly extends the concept of flexibility, while managing stakeholder relationships in order to develop key dynamic capabilities. Finally, we also discuss the main contributions of the other articles included in this special issue, thus providing specific examples of agility in well debated IB contexts (e.g., emerging markets). We also suggest some future research areas for this complex and ambiguous concept.
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