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1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is strategy as practice? / Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara -- Ontological and epistemological questions. Practice in research: phenomenon, perspective and philosophy / Wanda J. Orlikowski -- Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews / Robert Chia and Andreas Rasche -- Practice, strategy making and intentionality: a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for strategy as practice / Haridimos Tsoukas -- Constructivist epistemologies in strategy as practice research / Simon Grand, Johannes Rüegg-Stürm and Widar von Arx -- Constructing contribution in 'strategy as practice' research / Karen Golden-Biddle and Jason Azuma -- The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about strategy as practice / Ann Langley -- Theoretical directions. Giddens, structuration theory and strategy as practice / Richard Whittington -- An activity-theory approach to strategy as practice / Paula Jarzabkowski -- A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing / Marie-Leandre Gomez -- A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing / Saku Mantere -- A Foucauldian perspective on strategic practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding / Florence Allard-Poesi -- A narrative approach to strategy as practice: strategy making from texts and narratives / Valérie-Inès de La Ville and Eléonore Mounoud -- Methodological tracks. Broader methods to support new insights into strategizing / Anne Sigismund Huff, Anne-Katrin Neyer and Kathrin Möslein -- Critical discourse analysis as methodology in strategy as practice research / Eero Vaara -- Researching everyday practice: the ethnomethodological contribution / Dalvir Samra-Fredericks -- Researching strategists and their identity in practice: building 'close-with' relationships / Phyl Johnson, Julia Balogun and Nic Beech -- Studying strategizing through narratives of practice / Linda Rouleau -- Application variations. Institutional change and strategic agency: an empirical analysis of managers' experimentation with routines in strategic decision-making / Gerry Johnson, Stuart Smith and Brian Codling -- Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy workshops: do strategy workshops produce strategic change? / Robert MacIntosh, Donald MacLean and David Seidl -- Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development / Pikka-Maaria Laine and Eero Vaara -- Strategizing and history / Mona Ericson and Leif Melin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Strategic planning -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Strategic planning. |
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic resource.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Golsorkhi, Damon.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521517287 (DLC) 2010022105 (OCoLC)634742641 |
| ISBN |
9780511789694 (electronic book) |
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0511789696 (electronic book) |
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9780511787089 (electronic book) |
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0511787081 (electronic book) |
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9780511777882 (electronic book) |
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0511777884 (electronic book) |
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9780521517287 (hardback) |
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0521517281 (hardback) |
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9786612770531 |
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6612770538 |
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