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Andre

If I were you, I'd send this same query via the Strategy-as-Practice network http://www.s-as-p.org/  which, though they might frown on your use of simulation rather than ethnography, would know about the types of longitudinal data sets you seem to be after. Ralph Stacey might be someone to get in touch with vis-à-vis modeling companies as CAS. You might also get in touch with someone like Patrick Regner patrick.regner@hhs.se who has undertaken investigations into resource splitting at Ericsson.

Sounds like fascinating stuff for a PhD.

Kyle

Dear Network Members,

I am looking for data on the proportion of organization's developmental resources dedicated to autonomous strategic processes or informal exploration initiatives (Burgelman & Grove, 2007, SMJ). As autonomous processes are not formally sanctioned by senior management, they usually do not show up in accounting measures unless/until they have been induced into the formal strategy of firms and/or allocated a formal budget. For instance, Burgelman and Grove (2007) give estimates regarding Intel's autonomous/induced resource split over a 30 year period based on the recollection of senior managers. Lovas and Ghoshal's (2000, SMJ) qualitative study describe the resource split at Oticon, but do not give numerical estimates.

I am conducting studies of three organizations for my thesis and I was hoping to find some secondary data to corroborate. I am using this data in a simulation of organizations as complex-adaptive systems.

Thanks,

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