Process research in strategy formation: Theory, methodology and relevance
基于过程方法文献，特别是Mintzberg、Pettigrew和Van de Ven的工作，提出战略形成过程观，通过结构化理论桥接战略管理中的内容-过程鸿沟，并探讨过程方法论如何发现解释事件序列规律的生成机制，从而为管理实践提供关于连续性与变革过程轨迹的洞察。
This paper develops a view of the strategy formation process, drawing on a review of contributions that are based on a process approach, and more specifically the work of Henry Mintzberg, Andrew Pettigrew and Andrew Van de Ven. This view is meant to provide a way to bridge the content–process gap in strategic management by addressing the aspects of process theory and process methodology. Structuration is found to provide a useful theoretical basis for strategy formation research. Process methodology is found to be about discovering valid generative mechanisms that explain regular patterns in event sequences. Strategy formation research can then be made relevant for management practice by providing insight with regard to generative mechanisms and associated process trajectories of continuity and change, to allow for judgements on the favourability of the course of the process as well as the necessity to intervene or to let the process run its course.