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Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use [PDF]
Organization Studies, 2004 In this article, a social theory framework is developed to explain the common themes of recursive and adaptive practice underpinning the existing strategic management literature. In practice, there is a coexistent tension between recursive and adaptive forms of strategic action that spans multiple levels from macro-institutional and competitive ...
P. Jarzabkowski
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Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously [PDF]
Academy of Management Annals, 2012 This article reviews research in Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) and suggests directions for its development. The power of this perspective lies in its ability to explain how strategy-making is enabled and constrained by prevailing organizational and societal practices.
Vaara, Eero, Whittington, Richard
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Long Range Planning, 1996 This article maps the development of strategic thinking since the 1960s and identifies an emerging perspective on strategy as ‘practice’. The practice perspective on strategy focuses on strategists and strategizing, rather than organizations and strategies. Implications for practitioners, teachers and researchers are developed.
R. Whittington
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How boards strategise : a strategy as practice view
, 2010 While board involvement in strategy is seen as increasingly important, our understanding of how boards fulfil this role is limited. This article draws on indepth qualitative research with directors and senior managers to develop a Strategy as Practice ...
Kiel, Geoffrey C. +2 more
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A Strategy-as-Practice Approach to Strategy Research and Education [PDF]
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2008 This conclusion to the Dialog proposes a strategy-as-practice based approach to bringing strategy research and education closer to practice. Strategy-as-practice rejects the choice, proposed in the previous articles, between theory and practice. The authors argue for strategy research based rigorously on sociological theories of practice. Such research
Jarzabkowski, Paula +1 more
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Strategy as Diligence: Putting Behavioral Strategy into Practice [PDF]
California Management Review, 2017 Researchers in behavioral strategy are producing new insights on strategic decision making. At the same time, a few pioneering companies are discovering ways to put behavioral strategy into practice. This article draws on behavioral research and strategy practice to present an approach called diligence-based strategy.
T. C. Powell
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The promise of the strategy as practice perspective for family business strategy research
, 2010 Family firms represent the most common form of business organization in most countries. This is, however, not yet reflected in the amount of strategy research devoted to family firms. In this article we suggest that the strategy as practice perspective –
Melin, Leif,, Nordqvist, Mattias,
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A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services, 2021 M. Thomas
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Strategy as Learning: Capturing Emerging Knowledge [PDF]
The process of strategy making presents a multi-faceted debate, with the ‘Learning School’ of strategic management being one of the main approaches to conceptualise strategy formation.
Rowles, Nicholas, Oliver, John James
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From metaphor to practice in the crafting of strategy [PDF]
, 2007 The editors of Strategy as Practice, Johnson, Langley, Melin and Whittington, illustrate theoretical perspectives and alternative methodologies of 'strategy as practice' research by reflecting and commenting on selected 'classic' research papers such as ...
Buergi, Peter +2 more
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