Making connections: Harnessing the diversity of strategy‐as‐practice research

Kohtamäki, Marko; Whittington, Richard; Vaara, Eero; Rabetino, Rodrigo

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“…By strategic processes, we mean the various dynamics that play out over time in strategic decision-making or strategy work, including both short and long-term patterns and their implications (Hutzschenreuter & Kleindienst, 2006). By strategic practices, we focus on the different sociomaterial methods, tools, and frameworks used as well as the cognitive, emotional, and political elements of strategic decision-making and strategy work (Kohtamaki et al, 2021;Vaara & Whittington, 2012). In this broad view, following the example of others (Burgelman et al, 2018), we see the processes and practices as closely related and intertwined, and view language and communication playing a crucial role in them.…”

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Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research

Vaara

Fritsch

2021

Strategic Management Journal

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Research Summary The purpose of this introduction to the SMS collection is to take stock of advances in language‐based analyses of strategic processes and practices with an eye on the theoretical and methodological insights and opportunities. After a review of the articles included, we develop a framework that identifies four perspectives ranging from the more micro to the macro: (a) microlevel conceptual basis of strategy discourse, (b) use of language in strategy work processes in their socio‐material and multimodal contexts, (c) use of language and especially narratives in long‐term processes of strategic change, and (d) the rhetorical and discursive reconstruction of organizational strategies in their historical contexts. We then move on to offer a set of research opportunities and questions to form an agenda for future research. Managerial Summary This article takes stock of recent research on the role of language and communication in strategic decision‐making and strategy work. The key argument is that we should not treat language merely as a window into other aspects of strategic phenomena but as a central means through which strategies are shaped and made sense of. The paper underscores that language use is a crucial part of strategy work and strategic change—to be taken seriously in its own right in research as well as practice. Another key point is that we need to develop better understanding of the new communication technologies and media that play a key role in contemporary organizations. The new theoretical ideas and methods may also inspire practitioners to develop their communication practices.

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Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research

Vaara

Fritsch

2021

Strategic Management Journal

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“…A review article by Kohtamäki et al (2021) finds that the SAP field has developed into six distinct clusters of research around themes of praxis, sensemaking, discourse, sociomateriality, institutional and process theory. Articles in these clusters are strongly integrated in drawing upon each other, but less integrated across communities, indicating the formation of sub-communities with the SAP field.…”

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“…These three articles arising at the end of two decades of SAP research have commonalities in pointing the way forward for propagation of the field. While acknowledging the enormous work done, they emphasize the need to both establish more robust points of differentiation that are grounded in the radical agenda of practice theory (Jarzabkowski et al, 2021; MacKay et al, 2021), while also ensuring cross-pollination among the sub-communities that have arisen (Kohtamäki et al, 2021). We now reflect on the implications of these articles for the future agenda of SAP.…”

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“…Yet, the publication of the special issue marked a turning point in the development of this nascent perspective. As Kohtamäki and colleagues (2021: 5), in their recent review of the SAP field, noted: ‘the field took off around 2007, the year of the Human Relations special issue’. With about 500 articles (see Figure 1) published since the special issue, SAP has now become one of the most prominent and vibrant approaches in strategy research.…”

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From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions

2022

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Over the last two decades, Strategy as Practice (SAP) has developed from an embryonic, fringe perspective on strategy to a consolidated field of strategy research. The 2007 special issue of Human Relations on ‘Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective’ played a pivotal role in bringing this field to fruition. Reflecting on the broad SAP aim to ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’, we employ a plant-based metaphor, to distinguish three phases in the development of SAP, each associated with different types of agenda work. In an initial Germination Phase, scholars did agenda-seeking work of establishing new concepts and differentiating SAP from other fields of strategy research. A Blossoming Phase of agenda-setting work followed, establishing a community of scholars and articles that identified as SAP, and establishing and defending the boundaries of the new field. As the field became established, it entered a Harvesting Phase, characterized by agenda-confirming work of using SAP lenses to explain core strategy and organization. Based on these reflections, and considering the many public critiques of SAP, we note that the field appears to be in transition to a new Propagating Phase that offers exciting potential to cross-pollinate within the SAP field and across other areas.

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“…O estudo da estratégia, considerado por meio das organizações, evoluiu, expressivamente, nos últimos anos (KOHTAMÄKI et al, 2021). Conforme Mintzberg, Ahlstrand e Lampel (2010), o conceito de estratégia pode ser desenvolvido mediante diferentes perspectivas, ilustradas por dez diferentes escolas de pensamento estratégico (design, planejamento, posicionamento, empreendedora, cognitiva, aprendizado, poder, cultural, ambiental, configuração).…”

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Estratégia Como Prática Em Ambiente Dinâmico: Estudo De Caso Em Um Tabelionato De Protesto

Pagani

Lavarda

2021

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Os agentes envolvidos no processo de formação da estratégia e no modo como eles atuam têm sido foco dos estudos da estratégia em um âmbito micro. Este estudo objetiva compreender como ocorre a formação da estratégia sob a perspectiva da estratégia-como-prática em ambiente dinâmico. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa por meio de um estudo de caso em um Tabelionato de Protesto inserido em ambiente dinâmico, passando por mudanças econômicas, tecnológicas, legislativas em tempo de elevado endividamento no país. Os dados foram analisados por meio das técnicas pattern matching e análise narrativa. Constatou-se que a formação da estratégia ocorre no ajuste contínuo da interação entre a prática, práxis, praticante e ambiente, em momento de inadimplência, nas ações que buscam sua redução. A perspectiva da estratégia-como-prática nesta organização contribui na busca de elucidar a atuação do Tabelionato, como dispositivo legal de controle e apoio diante da crescente “cultura da inadimplência” e endividamento da população.

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Making connections: Harnessing the diversity of strategy‐as‐practice research

Cited by 66 publications

References 190 publications

Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research

Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research

From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions

Estratégia Como Prática Em Ambiente Dinâmico: Estudo De Caso Em Um Tabelionato De Protesto

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