Cambridge Handbook of Strategy As Practice

by Edited by Damon Golsorkhi , Linda Rouleau , David Seidl , Eero Vaara

• ISBN13: 9780521517287
• ISBN10: 0521517281
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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, 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction: What is strategy-as-practice?

Epistemological Streams

Practice in research: phenomenon, perspective and philosophy

Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy-as-practice: building and dwelling worldviews

Practice, strategy making and intentionality: a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for strategy-as-practice

Constructivist epistemologies in strategy-as-practice research

Constructing contribution in 'strategy-as-practice' research

The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about strategy-as-practice

Theoretical Directions

Giddens, structuration theory and strategy-as-practice

An activity-theory approach to strategy-as-practice

A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing

A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing

A Foucauldian perspective on strategic practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding

A narrative approach to strategy-as-practice: strategy-making from texts and narratives

Methodological Tracks

Broader methods to support new insights into strategizing

Critical discourse analysis as methodology in strategy-as-practice research

Researching everyday practice: the ethnomethodological contribution

Researching strategists and their identity in practice: building close-with relationships

Studying strategizing through narratives of practice

Application Variations

Institutional change and strategic agency: an empirical analysis of managers' experimentation with routines in strategic decision-making

Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy workshops: do strategy workshops produce strategic change?

Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development

Strategizing and history

Index

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