Scholars agree that the roadmapping process and product both have multiple benefits for organizations in terms of strategic planning and coordination of strategic activities. However, the social and organizational aspects surrounding strategic and technological roadmapping are still poorly understood. By mobilizing the literature on strategic tools-in-use, and the theory of affordances, this paper explores the practical affordances of roadmapping. Our results, based on a longitudinal study of the development and dissemination of a roadmap within Hydro-Québec, show that the roadmapping process and product fulfill three main types of function: instrumental, symbolic, and political. We also find that the coordination and alignment benefits are highly dependent on the political affordances of the tools that individuals anticipate in the conduct and dissemination of roadmapping.

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技术的可供性和战略路线图：对其工具性、象征性和政治功能的探索

学者们一致认为，路线图流程和产品在战略规划和战略活动协调方面对组织都有多种好处。然而，围绕战略和技术路线图的社会和组织方面仍然知之甚少。通过动员有关使用中的战略工具和可供性理论的文献，本文探讨了路线图的实际可供性。我们的结果基于对魁北克水电公司内部路线图的制定和传播的纵向研究，结果表明路线图过程和产品履行了三种主要功能：工具性、象征性和政治性。我们还发现，协调和协调的好处在很大程度上取决于个人在路线图的实施和传播中预期的工具的政治承受能力。