- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of appendices
- List of abbreviations
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Dissertation as part of the ICS Research Project
- 1.2 Research objective and guiding questions
- 1.3 Theoretical relevance
- 1.4 Practical relevance
- 1.5 Outline of dissertation
- 2 Theoretical background
- 2.1 Strategy process research
- 2.2 Organizational theory lenses on strategy process
- 2.3 Selection of neo-institutional theory for this dissertation
- 2.4 Summary and discussion
- 3 Research framework
- 3.1 Unit and level of analysis
- 3.2 Theoretical framework
- 3.3 Summary and discussion
- 4 Research setting
- 4.1 Industry and case study selection
- 4.2 Introduction to the selected case company: E.ON
- 4.3 German energy sector
- 4.4 Actors in the field
- 4.5 Summary and discussion
- 5 Methodology
- 5.1 General research methodology
- 5.2 Research design
- 5.3 Phase I: Resource-based outside-in analysis
- 5.4 Phase II: Interview-based in-depth case study
- 5.5 Consolidation and theory building
- 5.6 Summary and discussion
- 6 Results
- 6.1 Direct influences of regulatory actors on corporate resource allocations
- 6.2 Internal alignments of corporate strategy and structure
- 6.3 Externally directed responses toward regulatory involvement
- 6.4 Summary and discussion
- 7 Managing regulatory involvement - towards an integrative framework
- 7.1 Theoretical framework and institutional mechanisms
- 7.2 Relative importance of political strategy vs. market strategy
- 7.3 Coordination of political and market strategy
- 7.4 Summary and discussion
- 8 Discussion and implications
- 8.1 General discussion of the results
- 8.2 Implications relating to theory
- 8.3 Implications relating to management practice
- 9 Conclusions
- 9.1 Limitations of this dissertation
- 9.2 Further research directions
- 9.3 Final conclusions
- Appendices
- Bibliography
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