Crowdsourcing Strategizing: Communication Technology Affordances and the Communicative Constitution of Organizational Strategy
Abstract
Disruptive environmental trends are forcing organizations to be more innovative in
their approaches to organizational strategy generation. Rather than using a traditional
top-down approach, some organizations are turning to open strategizing, which involves
a large number of stakeholders who communicate in transparent, virtual environments.
This study used a case analysis to explore one organization’s use of crowdsourcing
technology in a move from a traditional to an open strategizing approach. Drawing on
technology affordance and communicative-as-constitutive perspectives, we identified
individual and collective crowdsourcing technology affordances for strategizing.
Subsequently, we explored how the technology affordances influenced organizational
strategizing. Results showed that crowdsourced strategy was constituted as multivoice,
divergent, egalitarian, and inclusive.
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329488415627269
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