Strategy Creation in the Periphery: Inductive versus Deductive Strategy Making

By P. Regnér. 2003

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Infrastructure or foreign direct investment?: An examination of the implications of MNE strategy for economic development (2009, background): “In fact, there is a line of analysis that suggests such capability development in the local economy of subsidiaries is an ‘advantage’ of multinationality (Regner, 2003; Yamin, 2002).”
Firm, strategic group, and industry influences on performance (2007, background): “Likewise, managers’ strategy creation processes are a function of inductive and deductive thinking (Regner, 2003).”
Strategy-Process Research: What Have We Learned and What Is Still to Be Explored (2006, background): “Distance to the actual market development forces headquarters in an organization to a deductive formal approach, whereas the periphery uses an inductive approach based on externally oriented and explorative activities (Regnér, 2003).”
Rationality vs ignorance: The role of MNE headquarters in subsidiaries’ innovation processes (2011, background): “MNEs (Regnér, 1999), or actually constitutes a prerequisite for entrepreneurship at the subsidiary level (Mudambi & Navarra, 2004; Yamin, 2002).”
MNE institutional advantage: How subunits shape, transpose and evade host country institutions (2014, methodology): “…in how responses are created in specific institutional settings; this is often the work of subunits dealing with local businessspecific regulations, norms and customs (Regnér, 2003; Saka-Helmhout & Geppert, 2011), as opposed to work at global headquarters (Birkinshaw, 1997; Orr & Scott, 2008).”
The Cognitive Perspective in Strategy: An Integrative Review (2011, background): “Regner (2003) offered the intriguing insight that the process is likely to be deductive at the strategic center, involving an industry and exploitation focus, and inductive at the strategic periphery, including externally oriented and exploratory strategy activities.”