Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, Eero Vaara

Cambridge University Press, Aug 26, 2010 - Business & Economics

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides a comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores and explains the contribution that strategizing makes to daily operations at all levels of an organization. Moving away from a disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, the strategy-as-practice approach breaks down many of the traditional paradigmatic boundaries in strategy to investigate who the strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences or outcomes of their actions are. Including a number of detailed empirical studies, the handbook will be an essential guide for future research in this vibrant field.

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Strategy cannot be seen anymore as something static, written in a business plan. Considering strategy as a practice reminds us that it is a moment of lived work in organizations, where the doings are ...

Contents

• What is Strategy as Practice?: 1
• phenomenon perspective: 23
• Epistemological alternatives for researching: 34
• Constructivist epistemologies in Strategy: 63
• Constructing contribution in Strategy as Practice: 79
• The challenge of developing cumulative: 91
• Giddens structuration theory: 109
• technologyinpractice: 117
• Strategy as Practice questions: 130
• A Bourdieusian perspective: 141
• A Wittgensteinian perspective: 155
• A Foucauldian perspective on strategic: 168
• A narrative approach to Strategy: 183
• narratives: 193
• Broader methods to support new insights into: 201
• Critical discourse analysis as methodology: 217
• Researching strategists and their identity: 243
• Studying strategizing through narratives: 258
• organizational restructuring: 263
• institutional change: 275
• Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy: 291
• a critical discourse: 310
• Strategizing and history: 326
• Author Index: 344

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
• Editors: Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, Eero Vaara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1139490745, 9781139490740
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Management; Business & Economics / Strategic Planning