Strategic Information Systems Enabling Strategy-as-practice Under Uncertain Environments

Abstract Recent research in the new era of strategic planning (SP) shows its ambivalent capacity for prescriptive rationality as a way for managing the creation of emerging and flexible strategies to deal with environmental turbulence. However, there is limited research on how this capacity can be developed, and even less on strategic planning as enabled by strategic information systems (SIS). Contingency and Practice theory were used to investigate how SIS enables SP effectiveness in practice, under the influence of environmental uncertainty, by applying PLS-PM statistical techniques to a sample of 139 companies. The study confirmed that SIS enhances SP effectiveness under different contingency levels of dynamism, heterogeneity and hostility. Results from post-analysis study show: (a) SIS demonstrated greater predictive power in strategy formulation and control and less emphasis on executing it; (b) SIS presented greater influence on SP effectiveness in environments with high heterogeneity; (c) companies showed greater emphasis on controlling and formulating strategy than executing it. The study contributed to understanding how SIS creates value via strategy-as-practice under environmental turbulence. JEL Classification Codes: L86, D83, L2.摘要 战略规划（Strategic Planning，SP）领域新时代的最新研究表明，其兼具规范性理性的双重属性能力，可作为管理新兴灵活战略构建、应对环境动荡的有效路径。然而，当前关于如何培育该能力的研究仍较为匮乏，针对战略信息系统（Strategic Information Systems，SIS）赋能战略规划的相关研究则更为稀缺。本研究采用权变理论与实践理论，结合PLS-PM统计方法，对139家企业的样本进行实证分析，旨在探究在环境不确定性的影响下，战略信息系统如何在实践中提升战略规划效能。研究证实，在动态性、异质性与敌意性不同的权变情境下，战略信息系统均能有效提升战略规划效能。后续分析结果显示：(a) 战略信息系统在战略制定与战略控制环节展现出更强的预测能力，对战略执行环节的关注程度相对较低；(b) 在异质性程度较高的环境中，战略信息系统对战略规划效能的影响更为显著；(c) 相较于战略执行，企业更侧重于战略控制与战略制定环节。本研究有助于深化对环境动荡背景下，战略信息系统如何通过战略实践路径创造价值的认知。JEL分类号：L86、D83、L2。