Authors: Yoritoshi Hara
Many researchers have studied strategizing processes of individual firms. However, little is known about strategizing processes in business and industrial networks. This qualitative study focuses on how strategic practices are legitimated in the Japanese retail industrial network. I conducted a thematic analysis to assess transitions in social perceptions about strategic practices in the industry during the period from about fifteen years before to fifteen years after a rush of global retailers’ entries into the Japanese market around 2000. Thought the analysis, I identified five frames that were used to talk about the global retailers and strategic practices in the industrial network
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Publish Year: 2016
Conference: Cape Town (2016)