Exploring Markets: A Very Brief Introduction
By Stefan Kühl
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Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment – one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative confidence. Thus, contrary to what traditional market res
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Exploring Markets - Stefan Kühl
Stefan Kühl
Exploring
Markets
A Very Brief
Introduction
Organizational Dialogue Press
Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles, Zurich
Imprint
ISBN (Print) 978-0-9991479-4-8
ISBN (EPUB) 978-0-9991479-5-5
Copyright © 2017 by Stefan Kühl
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.
Translated by: Adam Blauhut
Cover Design: Guido Klütsch
Typesetting: Thomas Auer
Project Management: Tabea Koepp
www.organizationaldialoguepress.com
Contents
Foreword: Market Exploration Instead of Market Research
1.
Observing the Environment
1.1 An Organization’s Environment
1.2. Alignment with Similar Organizations in the Same Field
2.
Beyond the Objectivist View—the Cognitive Turn
2.1. The Objectivist View of the World
2.2 Forming
—How Organizations Create Their View of the Environment
2.3 The Diversity and Narrowing of Perspectives in Organizations
3.
Approaches to Exploration
3.1. Re-Framing—Changing the Organization’s View of the Environment
3.2. De-Generalization
of Statements
3.3. Hypotheses Formation—Articulating Assumptions in Order to Make Progress with Exploration
4.
Options for Constructing Reality—Conclusion
Bibliography
Foreword:
Market Exploration
Instead of Market Research
The title of this book, Exploring Markets,
does not accurately reflect its content. The book focuses not only on how businesses view their product markets, labor markets and financial markets, but, more generally, on how different types of organizations perceive their environment and justify decisions on the basis of their perceptions. Even if market research approaches tend to reduce discussions about organizational alignment with a relevant section of the environment to businesses, we should not ignore the way other types of organizations observe their environment. After all, it is often more difficult for public administrations, armies, political parties, government departments, hospitals and universities to take in their complex environments than it is for companies.
The title Exploring Markets
is likely to confuse many readers, since the verb to explore
typically calls to mind groups of schoolchildren exploring the natural environment on an excursion or ten-month-old infants consciously registering their immediate environment for the first time. However, even though this book is concerned with how companies perceive their environment in general and thus moves beyond the exploration of markets, we decided to keep the title.
We have chosen the word exploring
quite deliberately. The more common term, researching markets,
stands for an approach that continues to dominate organizational practice today, one that assumes that an organization’s environment can be determined objectively.
The work performed at most market research institutes and departments is characterized by the idea that these institutes and departments can grasp market developments as they really
are if only they collect data according to scientific standards of reliability, validity and representativeness. This notion reflects the instrumental-rational understanding of organizations that long dominated management circles in the past and is based on the assumption that organizations can derive the right strategies—i.e., the means to achieve a purpose or aim—from a precise analysis of the environment and then construct an entire organization based on means-ends chains.
By using the term exploring markets,
we signal that we reject the notion that markets can be investigated objectively. With the cognitive turn in organizational science, researchers came to recognize that an organization’s structure plays a key role in determining its view of its environment. If different views exist within an organization—so goes the thinking—it has nothing to do with the fact that the single proper
view has not yet established itself, but rather with the fact that the individual organizational units are integrated into the organizational structure in different ways and perceive their environment through individual observation grids.
The aim of this booklet is to show what form market exploration can take beyond this relatively narrow perspective. The first