TY - JOUR

T1 - Coauthoring collaborative strategy when voices are many and authority is ambiguous

AU - Nathues, Ellen

AU - Endedijk, Maaike

AU - van Vuuren, Mark

N1 - The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was partially funded by the European Funds for Regional Development (EFRO) under project number PROJ-00729. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.

PY - 2023/8/1

Y1 - 2023/8/1

N2 - In interorganizational teams, processes are more complex and structures less clear than in intraorganizational settings. Different perspectives come together and authoritative positions are often ambiguous, which makes establishing what to do problematic. We adopt a ventriloquial analytical lens and pose the question: How exactly do interorganizational team members build a collaborative strategy under these conditions, in their situated interactions? Our findings show how many different voices (individual, organizational, team, and other) shape members’ strategy-making and reveal these voices’ performative authoritative effects: Members established their team’s strategy and produced the needed authority to do so through three coauthoring practices, namely, the proposition, appropriation, and expropriation of voices. When members switched between the practices and different voices, these voices were either woven together or moved apart. We sketch a conceptualization of strategy as a relational assemblage and develop a process model of strategy-coauthoring to illuminate these dynamics.

AB - In interorganizational teams, processes are more complex and structures less clear than in intraorganizational settings. Different perspectives come together and authoritative positions are often ambiguous, which makes establishing what to do problematic. We adopt a ventriloquial analytical lens and pose the question: How exactly do interorganizational team members build a collaborative strategy under these conditions, in their situated interactions? Our findings show how many different voices (individual, organizational, team, and other) shape members’ strategy-making and reveal these voices’ performative authoritative effects: Members established their team’s strategy and produced the needed authority to do so through three coauthoring practices, namely, the proposition, appropriation, and expropriation of voices. When members switched between the practices and different voices, these voices were either woven together or moved apart. We sketch a conceptualization of strategy as a relational assemblage and develop a process model of strategy-coauthoring to illuminate these dynamics.

KW - authority

KW - CCO

KW - interorganizational collaboration

KW - multi-voicedness

KW - strategy-as-practice

KW - ventriloquism

KW - Management studies

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/360a574b-a28d-3196-b73e-e8fc05ff50ac/

U2 - 10.1177/14761270211068842

DO - 10.1177/14761270211068842

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85124608821

VL - 21

SP - 683

EP - 708

JO - Strategic Organization

JF - Strategic Organization

SN - 1476-1270

IS - 3

ER -