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Acknowledgements
The Strategy as Practice community thanks the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and the Journal of Management Studies for their financial support of this website.
Strategy as Practice
A network concerned with the everyday processes, practices and activities involved in the making of strategy.
 

Strategy as Practice is a community of scholars interested in the practice of strategy. As scholars we are interested in a broad spectrum of issues concerned with the making and doing of strategy and strategic change in organisations. We apply a variety of different theoretical approaches, such as practice perspectives on organisations, sensemaking, discourse analysis, and script theory. What we are agreed on is the importance of a focus on the processes and practices constituting the everyday activities of organizational life and relating to strategic outcomes, if we are to move our field forward. We see the linkage through to strategic outcomes as an important component of our research as we ultimately need to be able to link the outcomes of (multiple) strategising activities, events and behaviours within the firm to more macro organisational, institutional and, possibly, even broader social contexts and outcomes. If we are to theorise about the link between what occurs within organisations and more macro levels of analysis we need to situate organisational activities within the broader context of action. As such, we share with traditional strategy research a concern for firm performance, but we also emphasise the significance of potentially multiple strategizing outcomes and their interactions through time. As a result, we are typically involved in in-depth qualitative research that enables us to examine the inside of strategising processes, and marry the concern for both content and process, and for both intentional and emergent activities and outcomes. In addition, we acknowledge the role of a broad range of strategists outside of the senior management team in organisations, and the potential impact of others within the field on strategising activities, such as consultants and business school academics.

 
What to expect from the strategy-as-practice website
 

This is a free website and discussion forum for scholars interested in researching and teaching strategy as practice. Our ethos is very much community based. On this site you can: meet like minded scholars in Our Community; find out about News and Events; contribute to the Research Agenda for strategy as practice; browse and make comment upon Research Papers by other members; post your own working papers to gain some feedback; download and contribute to our growing Bibliography; and, most importantly, join in discussion about strategy as practice in the Discussion Forum. We hope that this site will engage you in a wider academic community from which you will derive resources, support, challenge and stimulation. We also hope that your contributions will help to further our field. To join us or to find out more about the strategy as practice perspective and research community, click on the links to the left.

 
Want to help with the site?
 

Currently this site is being hosted and maintained by David Seidl and Paula Jarzabkowski. We are, however, keen to involve more members in developing the field. If you have any ideas about how you could improve this site or if you want to assist us, please contact us.