Abstract
Strategy execution is a challenging organizational process that intertwines structural, economic, and social processes. Quy Huy’s work has increased our understanding of the social dynamics in this context. In particular, his work has described how managers in various different roles perceive organizational events differently, feel different emotions, and take various kinds of actions to promote organizational change. Their emotional reactions, subsequent behaviors, and the feedback loops between various people’s emotions and actions ultimately influence organizational outcomes in ways that Quy’s research has explicated. He has thus increased our understanding of change processes and also provided practical advice on how executives can better lead the execution of their strategies.
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Further Reading
Emotions and Strategy Execution
Huy, Q. (2005). An emotion-based view of strategic renewal. Advances in Strategic Management, 22, 3–37.
Huy, Q. N. (2011). How middle managers’ group‐focus emotions and social identities influence strategy implementation. Strategic Management Journal, 32(13), 1387–1410.
Huy, Q. (2012). Emotions and strategic organization: Opportunities for impactful research. Strategic Organization, 10, 240–247.
Vuori, T. O., & Huy, Q. N (2016b). Mental models and affective influence during inter-organizational collaboration for new technology. In J. Humphreys (Ed.), Proceedings of the seventy-sixth annual meeting of the academy of management. Online ISSN: 2151–6561. Academy of management review, special issue on emotions and organizations.
Strategy Execution More Generally
Huy, Q. N. (2001a). Time, temporal capability, and planned change. Academy of Management Review, 26, 601–623.
Huy, Q. N. (2001b). In praise of middle managers. Harvard Business Review, 79(8), 72–79. 160.
Huy, Q. N., & Mintzberg, H. (2003). The rhythm of change. MIT Sloan Management Review, 44(4), 79.
Zott, C., & Huy, Q. N. (2007). How entrepreneurs use symbolic management to acquire resources. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(1), 70.
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Vuori, T.O. (2017). Quy N. Huy: Strategy Execution and Emotions. In: Szabla, D.B., Pasmore, W.A., Barnes, M.A., Gipson, A.N. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52878-6_82
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