Agility

Birgit Renzl, Daniel Gäckle and Christian A. Mahringer

Chapter 2.3 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 118-120 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Agility is a key success factor for modern organisations, enabling them to adapt to turbulent environments by adjusting strategic directions and fostering innovation. The concept of agility encompasses both organisational agility as a capability and agile methods, such as Scrum and extreme programming. Strategy-as-Practice research on agility emphasises three key themes: how organisational agility is enacted through everyday practices, agility as a goal of strategising, and the use of agile methods as empirical contexts. Research highlights that agility emerges from collaborative practices, strategic foresight, and the interplay of routine stability and flexibility. To advance the understanding of agility's role in contemporary strategising, future research could explore the microfoundations and social dynamics of agility. This calls for studies that go beyond the context of software development and examine practices enabling organisational agility more broadly.

Keywords: Agile; Agile methods; Flexibility; Adaptability; Practice theory; Innovation; Organisational capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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