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The Structure and Significance of Strategic Episodes: Social Systems Theory and the Routine Practices of Strategic Change
John Hendry,David Seidl +1 more
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In this article, the authors draw on Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory, and in particular his concept of an "episode", to guide research into strategic practice and its relationship to the operating routines of an organization.Abstract:
In this paper we draw on Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory, and in particular his concept of an 'episode', to guide research into strategic practice and its relationship to the operating routines of an organization. Episodes, in Luhmann's theory, provide a mechanism by which a system can suspend its routine structures and so initiate a reflection on and change of these structures. Applying this theory to the organizational process of strategic change, we draw attention to the routine nature of strategic episodes and to their organizational role as the effective locus of strategic practice and the interaction between strategic and operating routines. We continue to develop a framework for the systematic analysis of different kinds of episode in terms of key aspects of their initiation, conduct and termination.read more
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Completing the Practice Turn in Strategy Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for strategy research that integrates these two levels based on the three concepts of strategy praxis, strategy practices and strategy practitioners, and develop implications of this framework for research, particularly with regard to the impact of strategy practices on strategy practice, the creation and transfer of strategy practice and the making of strategy practitioners.
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Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the study of strategy from a practice perspective and propose five main questions that the strategy-as-practice agenda seeks to address, and argue that a coherent approach to answering these questions may be facilitated using an overarching conceptual framework of praxis, practices and practitioners.
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Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use
TL;DR: 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 and how management practices are used to put strategy into practice.
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Strategy‐as‐practice: A review and future directions for the field
TL;DR: A review of strategy-as-practice research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a typology of nine possible domains for strategy as practice research, based on the way that different studies conceptualize the strategy practitioner and the level of strategy praxis that they aim to explain.
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Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously
Eero Vaara,Richard Whittington +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of research in Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) is presented and five directions for the further development of the practice perspective are outlined: placing agency in a web of practices, recognizing the macro-institutional nature of practices and focusing attention on emergence in strategy-making, exploring how the material matters, and promoting critical analysis.
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