Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Herausgeber: Golsorkhi, Damon; Vaara, Eero; Seidl, David; Rouleau, Linda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic and comprehensive introduction to the different aspects of strategy as practice, capturing recent developments and providing suggestions for future research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 687
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1511g
• ISBN-13: 9781107073128
• ISBN-10: 110707312X
• Artikelnr.: 42548713

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition; Introduction: what is strategy as practice?;
Part I. Ontological and Epistemological Questions: 1. Practice in research:
phenomenon, perspective and philosophy; 2. Epistemological alternatives for
researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews; 3.
Making strategy: meta-theoretical insights from Heideggerian phenomenology;
4. Constructivist paradigms: implications for strategy as practice
research; 5. Constructing contribution in strategy-as-practice research; 6.
The ongoing challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about strategy as
practice; 7. Practical relevance of practice-based research on strategy;
Part II. Theoretical Resources: Social Theory: 8. Giddens, structuration
theory and strategy as practice; 9. An activity theory approach to strategy
as practice; 10. A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing; 11. An
economies-of-worth perspective on strategy as practice: justification,
valuation and critique in the practice of strategy; 12. A Wittgensteinian
perspective on strategizing; 13. A Foucauldian perspective on strategic
practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding; 14. A narrative approach to
strategy as practice: strategy-making from texts and narratives; 15.
Actor-network theory and strategy as practice; Part III. Theoretical
Resources: Organization and Management Theories: 16. An institutional
perspective on strategy as practice; 17. Relating strategy as practice to
the resource-based view, capabilities perspectives and the
micro-foundations approach; 18. Theory of routine dynamics and connections
to strategy as practice; 19. Identity work as a strategic practice; 20.
Sensemaking in strategy as practice: a phenomenon or a perspective?; 21.
The communicative constitution of strategy-making: exploring fleeting
moments of strategy; 22. Analytical frames for studying power in strategy
as practice and beyond; 23. A critical perspective on strategy as practice;
Part IV. Methodological Resources: 24. Using ethnography in
strategy-as-practice research; 25. Researching strategists and their
identity in practice: building 'close-with' relationships; 26. Studying
strategizing through biographical methods: narratives of practices and life
trajectories of practitioners; 27. Researching everyday practice: the
ethnomethodological contribution; 28. Critical discourse analysis as
methodology in strategy-as-practice research; 29. Studying strategy as
practice through historical methods; 30. Quantitative methods in
strategy-as-practice research; Part V. Substantive Topic Areas: 31.
Strategic planning as practice; 32. Meetings and workshops as strategy
practices; 33. The role of materiality in the practice of strategy; 34.
Strategy-as-practice research on middle managers strategy work; 35.
Participation in strategy work; 36. The role of emotions in strategizing;
Index.