Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice / [edited by] Damon Golsorkhi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golsorkhi, Damon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: What is strategy as practice? / Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara

Part I. Ontological and Epistemological questions. 1. Practice in research: phenomenon, perspective and philosophy / Wanda J. Orlikowski

2. Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews / Robert Chia and Andreas Rasche

3. Practice, strategy making and intentionality: a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for strategy as practice / Haridimos Tsoukas

4. Constructivist epistemologies in strategy as practice research / Simon Grand, Johannes Rüegg-Stürm and Widar von Arx

5. Constructing contribution in 'strategy as practice' research / Karen Golden-Biddle and Jason Azuma

6. The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about strategy as practice / Ann Langley

Part II. Theoretical directions. 7. Giddens, structuration theory and strategy as practice / Richard Whittington

8. An activity-theory approach to strategy as practice / Paula Jarzabkowski

9. A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing / Marie-Leandre Gomez

10. A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing / Saku Mantere

11. A Foucauldian perspective on strategic practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding / Florence Allard-Poesi

12. A narrative approach to strategy as practice: strategy making from texts and narratives / Valérie-Inès de La Ville and Eléonore Mounoud

Part III. Methodological Tracks. 13. Broader methods to support new insights into strategizing / Anne Sigismund Huff, Anne-Katrin Neyer and Kathrin Möslein

14. Critical discourse analysis as methodology in strategy as practice research / Eero Vaara

15. Researching everyday practice: the ethnomethodological contribution / Dalvir Samra-Fredericks

16. Researching strategists and their identity in practice: building 'close-with' relationships / Phyl Johnson, Julia Balogun and Nic Beech

17. Studying strategizing through narratives of practice / Linda Rouleau

Part IV. Application variations. 18. Institutional change and strategic agency: an empirical analysis of managers' experimentation with routines in strategic decision-making / Gerry Johnson, Stuart Smith and Brian Codling

19. Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy workshops: do strategy workshops produce strategic change? / Robert MacIntosh, Donald MacLean and David Seidl

20. Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development / Pikka-Maaria Laine and Eero Vaara

21. Strategizing and history / Mona Ericson and Leif Melin.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-85097-2

1-107-20670-7

1-282-77053-5

9786612770531

0-511-77788-4

0-511-78895-9

0-511-78708-1

0-511-78969-6

0-511-78594-1

0-511-78822-3

OCLC:

663861891