Günter Müller-Stewens
Title
Prof. em. Dr.
Last Name
Müller-Stewens
First name
Günter
Email
guenter.mueller-stewens@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 2761
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Item type:Publication, When Lives Are at Stake: Managing Temporal Complexity with a Strategy Process Repertoire(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2025-02-06); Humanitarian organizations assisting victims of armed conflict face fragmented and potentially conflicting temporal demands on strategy making. Annual donor funding requires detailed planning, unpredictable outbreaks of war and violence demand quick and flexible decisions, and long-term societal challenges must be addressed over the next decades. Few studies have examined how organizations can achieve temporal fit in such temporally complex environments without accepting internal fragmentation or decoupling from certain temporal demands. We draw on a longitudinal case study of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a humanitarian organization with the mandate to aid victims of armed conflict, to explore this gap. We find that the ICRC has developed a repertoire of multiple distinct strategy processes tailored to the fragmented temporal demands. These processes include emergency responses, strategic planning, and long-term strategizing. Although each strategy process retained its distinctiveness, their loose coupling ensured a sufficient alignment of resource allocation in pursuit of the organization’s humanitarian mandate. Strong shared principles and an episodic activation of strategy processes helped to manage the inherent complexity of loose coupling. Thus, strategy process repertoires may form a capability supporting strategic decision making in temporally complex environments. Our study contributes to strategy process research by introducing loose coupling as a mechanism for integrating multiple strategy processes with different temporalities, complementing previous studies on strategy processes as a tightly coupled structural context. Furthermore, we advance theorizing on ambitemporality by analyzing how the loose coupling of internal temporal structures may help organizations cope with temporal complexity.Type:journal articleJournal:Organization ScienceScopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Auf dem Weg zum Stakeholder-Kapitalismus: Merkmale und Konsequenzen einer sich verändernden institutionellen Logik(2023); ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, From Product System to Ecosystem: How Firms Adapt to Provide an Integrated Value PropositionType:journal articleJournal:Strategic Management JournalDOI:10.1002/smj.3390Scopus© Citations 113 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Die mentale Prägung entscheidet: Sinnsuche im modernen UnternehmenType:journal articleJournal:Controlling : Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte UnternehmenssteuerungVolume:33Issue:S - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Was von Entscheidungsträgern erwartet wird. Das Modell der strategischen FührungskompetenzenType:journal articleJournal:Die UnternehmungVolume:74Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Business Ecosystems and Platforms:Towards a Shared UnderstandingSupplement to the special issue on "Business Ecosystems" in the journal "Die Unternehmung" (4/2019)Type:journal articleJournal:Die UnternehmungVolume:73Issue:4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Digitale Transformation: Werttreiber beim Aufbau plattformbasierter Ökosysteme in etablierten UnternehmenType:journal articleJournal:Controlling : Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte UnternehmenssteuerungVolume:31Issue:6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Unternehmens-Ökosysteme und Plattformen:Auf dem Weg zu einem geteilten VerständnisType:journal articleJournal:Die UnternehmungVolume:73Issue:4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Navigating the Challenges of Ecosystem Emergence: A Multi-Level Review of Leader and Complementor StrategiesBusiness ecosystems are currently transforming many established sectors. Understanding how ecosystems emerge and influence strategic outcomes is thus an important concern for academics and managers of incumbent firms alike. Ecosystems result from configuration processes where an ecosystem leader aligns multiple independent but complementary organizations to offer an integrated solution to meet a specific and often complex customer need. In this review, we analyze empirical research on the processes and outcomes of ecosystem emergence. We structure our findings along three analytical levels, highlighting the changes that ecosystems engender in competitive dynamics, the inter-organizational relationships, and the required internal organization of the participating firms. Ecosystem participants, leaders and complementors have to navigate the creation phase dynamically and then develop the strategic activities suited to their eventual role in the ecosystem.Type:journal articleJournal:Die UnternehmungVolume:73Issue:4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Rethinking the role of the centre in the multidivisional firm: A retrospectiveNowadays, diversified companies or business groups are the norm rather than the exception. Most multibusiness or multi-unit firms are organised as a multidivisional firm (M-form firms). They are structured into semi-autonomous divisions or operating units that report to a corporate headquarters (CHQ) to guide, control and coordinate the group. There are many different ways to manage the role of such a corporate center. Also, over the past decades, these roles had to change, owing to the changing requirements from the business environment and new approaches to managing the roles.Type:journal articleJournal:Long range planning : LRPVolume:50Issue:1Scopus© Citations 11