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Overview
The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides the first 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, ontological, 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 disembodies 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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Damon Golsorkhi is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Sociology at ESC Rouen Business School, France.
Linda Rouleau is Professor in the Department of Management at HEC Montréal.
David Seidl is Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Eero Vaara is Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. He is also Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) and Permanent Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School, France.
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Introduction: What is Strategy as Practice? Eero Vaara Vaara, Eero 1
PART I ONTOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
1 Practice in research: phenomenon, perspective and philosophy Wanda J. Orlikowski Orlikowski, Wanda J. 23
2 Epistemological alternatives for researching Strategy as Practice: building and dwelling worldviews Andreas Rasche Rasche, Andreas 34
3 Practice, strategy making and intentionality: a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for Strategy as Practice Haridimos Tsoukas Tsoukas, Haridimos 47
4 Constructivist epistemologies in Strategy as Practice research Widar von Arx von Arx, Widar 63
5 Constructing contribution in 'Strategy as Practice' research Jason Azuma Azuma, Jason 79
6 The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about Strategy as Practice Ann Langley Langley, Ann 91
PART II THEORETICAL DIRECTIONS
7 Giddens, structuration theory and Strategy as Practice Richard Whittington Whittington, Richard 109
8 An activity-theory approach to Strategy as Practice Paula Jarzabkowski Jarzabkowski, Paula 127
9 A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing Marie-Leandre Gomez Gomez, Marie-Leandre 141
10 A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing Saku Mantere Mantere, Saku 155
11 A Founcauldian perspective on strategic practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding Florence Allard-Poesi Allard-Poesi, Florence 168
12 A narrative approach to Strategy as Practice: strategy making from texts and narratives Eleonore Mounoud Mounoud, Eleonore 183
PART III METHODOLOGICAL TRACKS
13 Broader methods to support new insights into strategizing Kathrin Moslein Moslein, Kathrin 201
14 Critical discourse analysis as methodology in Strategy as Practice research Eero Vaara Vaara, Eero 217
15 Researching everyday practice: the ethnomethodological contribution Dalvir Samra-Fredericks Samra-Fredericks, Dalvir 230
16 Researching strategists and their identity in practice: building 'close-with' relationships Nic Beech Beech, Nic 243
17 Studying strategizing through narratives of practice Linda Rouleau Rouleau, Linda 258
PART IV APPLICATION VARIATIONS
18 Institutional change and strategic agency: an empirical analysis of managers' experimentation with routines in strategic decision-making Brian Codling Codling, Brian 273
19 Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy workshops: do strategy workshops produce strategic change? David Seidl Seidl, David 291
20 Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development Eero Vaara Vaara, Eero 310
21 Strategizing and history Leif Melin Melin, Leif 326
Author Index 344
Index 346