Understanding strategic agenda building and its implications for managing change

Horse Races, Governance and the Chance to Fight: On the Formation of Organizational Agendas

“…This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

“…It is interesting to note that Project Eagle subsumes many of the same concerns as TQ; yet the issues evidently differ in their capacity to attract support and consensus. This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

Horse Races, Governance and the Chance to Fight: On the Formation of Organizational Agendas

“…This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

“…It is interesting to note that Project Eagle subsumes many of the same concerns as TQ; yet the issues evidently differ in their capacity to attract support and consensus. This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…2 The introduction of the concept of contestation can have broad implications across many levels of analysis, including institutional formation and institutional change as well as the integration of political processes and individual agency into institutional processes. This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”

Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…We have applied the concepts of accountability (Tetlock, 1990) and contestation (White, 1992) to the industry level, using them to explain how industries attend to events. In this attentional process, image and identity become dominant considerations in the process by which This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”

Horse Races, Governance and the Chance to Fight: On the Formation of Organizational Agendas

“…This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

“…It is interesting to note that Project Eagle subsumes many of the same concerns as TQ; yet the issues evidently differ in their capacity to attract support and consensus. This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…2 The introduction of the concept of contestation can have broad implications across many levels of analysis, including institutional formation and institutional change as well as the integration of political processes and individual agency into institutional processes. This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”

Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…We have applied the concepts of accountability (Tetlock, 1990) and contestation (White, 1992) to the industry level, using them to explain how industries attend to events. In this attentional process, image and identity become dominant considerations in the process by which This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”

Horse Races, Governance and the Chance to Fight: On the Formation of Organizational Agendas

“…This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

“…It is interesting to note that Project Eagle subsumes many of the same concerns as TQ; yet the issues evidently differ in their capacity to attract support and consensus. This reinforces the importance of naming an issue effectively (Dutton, 1988). A cogent, emblematic label enables people to refer to an issue more readily, which probably enhances awareness and currency, and it can also be a powerful, even inspirational motivator.…”

Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…2 The introduction of the concept of contestation can have broad implications across many levels of analysis, including institutional formation and institutional change as well as the integration of political processes and individual agency into institutional processes. This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”

Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

“…We have applied the concepts of accountability (Tetlock, 1990) and contestation (White, 1992) to the industry level, using them to explain how industries attend to events. In this attentional process, image and identity become dominant considerations in the process by which This paper also makes several contributions to the literature on attention (March and Olsen, 1976;Dutton, 1988;Ocasio, 1997). First, it extends the study of organizational attention to the industry level.…”