Examining interactions of the actors forming the top management team with themselves and their organizational structure with the strategy as practice approche: E qualitative research on the hospital

In his 1996 year's study, Whittington stated that planning approach in 1960s focused on managerial decision making process, market and competitive structures which were used as a tool and technique in this process; in 1970s it focused on some politics researches' improvements such as innovation, firm mergers, firm acqusitions, and internalization process; in 1980s it focused on some strategic change and adaption to this change has become an important topic; Nowadays, intstead of organizational level, it has focused on some practical managerial level solutions with giving some insight to the processchool. The author emphasizes that a new view (strategy as practice) is come to the front with the contributions of academicians and practitioners. Beside, he claims that this new view fill an existing niche in the field. In the literature review, this view of "strategy as a perspective" has examined and investigated in the strategic management field since ten years. It is also an important topic in todays researches and many new researches are stuyding this topic in world-wide. Thus, the emphasized potential of this strategic perspective is the main starting point of this thesis. In accordance with this inspiration, this study aimed to investigate the formation of the top management teams (i.e. their inside formation, the interaction with the organizational structure) and the effects of these formations on strategic movements. While doing these, we use the practical implications from the side of strategy approach. The sample comprise of two hospitals in Antalya region. One of them belongs to the government and the other is private where the governmental is university hospital. We used a qualitative method that includes the holistic multiple case design. Thus, we made 57 different in depth interviews. Beside this, we made observations, we investigated other documents and some archive records. With the study findings, we think that we will give new insight to the academics and practitioners. Especially, giving an insight to the exploration of the context and establishing knowledge from the side of theory are some of the main the contributions of this study. Thus, the findings of the study will give guide to the other researches that will be made in the future.