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Reconciling structure and agency in strategy -as-practice research: Towards a strong- structuration theory approach [PDF]

, 2017
An overwhelming focus of research on the micro agency of strategic actors has led to the literature being characterized as demonstrating a micro-myopia, resulting in a micro-isolationism.
Elbasha, Tamim, Wright, Alex
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STRATEGY AS PRACTICE: A DISCUSSION OF THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROPRIATION OF HISTORICAL-CULTURAL ACTIVITY THEORY BY THE ACTIVITY-BASED VIEW

Faces: Revista de Administração, 2012
As an approach in development, Strategy as Practice appropriates other theories with ontological and epistemological assumptions that converge for the construction of their analytical body.
Marcio Luiz Marietto, Cida Sanches, Manuel Meireles   +2 more
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Barriers to learning at a U3A in Lebanon: A structurationist perspective

International Journal of Population Studies, 2023
This study examines the barriers older learners experience at a University for the Third Age (U3A) in Lebanon. Contemporary literature often categorizes these barriers into dispositional, situational, and institutional realms, arising as individual or ...
Hany Hachem, Marvin Formosa
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Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory : a critical pluralist approach. [PDF]

, 2014
This article is concerned with gaining greater insight into the interplay between agency and structure in industrial marketing (IM) scholarship. The article’s intent is to embed Midgley’s notion of critical pluralism within this endeavour.
Bernstein R. J., Bernstein R. J., Bhaskar R., Bhaskar R., Bourdieu P., Bourgeois L. J., Burrell G., Checkland P., Creswell J. W., Creswell J. W., Easton G., Eisenhardt K. M., Fay B., Ford D., Ford D., Fuenmayor R., Gerald Midgley, Giddens A., Gregory W. J., Hakansson H., Henneberg S., John D. Nicholson, Langley A., Lawson T., Lewis I., Maturana H. R., Mingers J., Norrie A., Peters L. D., Ross Brennan, Schultz M., Tashakkori A., Troye S. V., Tsoukas H., Von Bertalanffy L., Whittington R., Whittington R.   +36 more
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Bridging the gap between culture, identity and image: a structurationist conceptualization of place brands and place branding

Journal of Product & Brand Management, 2019
Purpose Although place branding is increasingly popular in research as well as in local, regional and national political agendas, the theoretical foundations of the place branding discipline are still underdeveloped.
Giuseppe Pedeliento, M. Kavaratzis
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KÜRESELLEŞME TARTIŞMALARI VE BİR AKTÖR OLARAK DEVLETİN GÜCÜ

Sosyal Ekonomik Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2012
Bu çalışma, küreselleşme tartışmalarının özünde ve bu tartışmaların çeşitlenmesinde temel belirleyici olarak devletin etkinliği ve küreselleşme karşısındaki gücüne ilişkin farklı algıların olduğunu iddia etmektedir.
Fazlı DOĞAN
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The Case of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies [PDF]

, 2012
Taking issue with the classical theory of path dependence, we capture the active agency involved in collective efforts aimed at extending a current technological path and, in parallel, at creating a new path in the field of leading-edge international ...
Möllering, Guido, Schubert, Cornelius, Sydow, Jörg, Windeler, Arnold   +3 more
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Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories [PDF]

, 2010
This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third ...
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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A Mixed-Method Approach for the Study of Practices in Interorganizational Settings [PDF]

, 2017
A general interest in the study of social practices has been spreading across a diversity of disciplines in organization and management research, relying mostly on rich ethnographic accounts of units or teams.
Berthod, Olivier, Grothe-Hammer, Michael, Sydow, Jörg   +2 more
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Strategy as Practice in the Structurationist Perspective: What it is and why it is? : Toward an Ontology of Practice of Strategy in Organizations

, 2016
As a developing approach, Strategy as Practice appropriates other theories with converging ontological and epistemological assumptions to build its analytical body. Therefore, in this discipline the designs of Structurationism and the Historical-Cultural
Márcio Luiz Marietto, I. Ribeiro, F. Serra   +2 more
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