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Papers 2008 Papers
Zhang, Baden-Fuller
Searching for Opportunities Guided vs Experiential Process Egos08
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Yakis-Douglas, Whittington
How to Sustain Strategic Issues- Activities for Senior Managers Egos08
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Wright, Starkey
Ostensibly different Egos08
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Vesa
Telling Time, Telling Strategy Egos08
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Spee, Jarzabkowski
Strategy formation as communicative process Egos08
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Smith, Erakovic, Dufour
The Relationship between Strategising and the Routines of Governance Egos08
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Slocum
How Middle Managers Routinely and Recursively Perceive Time in Adapting to Strategic Change Egos08
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Sele
Routinizing Innovation - a Practice Perspective Egos08
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Rasche, Chia
Strategy Practices between Stability and Change Egos08
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Regner, Zander
Strategic Management - Social Games in an Economic Frame Egos08
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Peeters, van Twist, van der Steen
Shifting Expectations Egos08
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Mante
Coordinating R&D Practices in International Alliances Egos08
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Larsen, Rasmussen
Stability and Change in Strategizing Routines Egos08
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Jarzabkowski, Matthiesen, Feldman
Organizing to Reorganize ABSTRACT Egos08
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Hansen, Kuepper
Stability and Change in Strategizing Routines Egos08
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Girard
Codifying and categorizing individual strategies as practices Egos08
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Franck Moller
Does Selfhood Matter in Strategy Conversations Egos08
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Fenton, Langley
Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn Egos08
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Erdelyi, Whitley
A Break from the Routine Egos08
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Engestrom
Breaking the Routines of Strategizing as a Challenge in Managing Project-Based Work Egos08
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Drummond, Brandao-Bernades
What middle managers have to say about strategy success Egos08
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Dionysiou, Tsoukas
The Emergence of Organizational Routines Egos08
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Cunha
Representation Work - The Routines of Producing Information on Strategy Performance Egos08
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Cloutier
Strategies for collaborating with powerful others Egos08
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Chia, Holt
Strategy as Wayfinding Egos08
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Bucher, Rueegg
Strategizing as protective interrupting Egos08
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Brudin, Melin, Nordqvist
Strategic Dialogue as an Important Practice of Strategizing Egos08
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Bouty, Godard
Strategizing in high velocity environments Egos08
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Bizzi
Patterns of Innovation Practice in a Network Organization Egos08
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Barry, Meisiek, Roos
The Role of Richness in Strategy-as-Practice - the Play of the Obivous and the Furtive Egos08
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Larissa V. Malopinsky
Facilitating organizational change: the use of activity theory as a framework for social construction of strategy knowledge
Facilitating organizational change: the use of activity theory as a framework for social construction of strategic knowledge


2007 Papers

Geneviève Musca
STRATEGIZING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS: FROM MICRO-EXPERIMENTATIONS TO NEW COMPETENCES
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Basak Yakis-Douglas, Richard Whittington
Sustaining strategic issues: Practice and skills
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Eric Vogler
The strategic conversation as a power issue between top and middle managers
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Mark van Twist, Martijn van der Steen, Rik Peeters
Strategy in Dutch public administration: The pendulum of positioning and practice
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Heike Untiedt, Andreas Rasche
Strategy’s cast
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Maria José Tonelli, Fábio Biselli
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar: Meanings managers in Brazil assign to the word strategy
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Régine Teulier
Strategizing a journal with PRP. How individual work becomes collective judgement.
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Brian Vejrum Soerensen, Harry Boer
Waltzing between order and ordering: a social practice perspective
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Alesia Slocum, Julia Balogun
Strategic change practice: Understanding how change occurs via technology
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Linda Rouleau, Stéphanie Gagnon, Charlotte Cloutier
Revisiting permanently failing organizations: A practice perspective
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Claus Rerup, Martha S. Feldman
Creating an organization by enacting routines
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Patrick Regnér
Strategy as practice: Untangling the emergence of competitive positions
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Sotirios Paroutis
The relationship between organizing and strategizing: Theoretical and empirical insights from a mMulti-method study
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Eamonn Molloy, Susie Dent
‘Strategizing’ the verb in practice
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Saku Mantere, Richard Whittington
Becoming a strategist: Senior manager trajectories
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Brian L. King
The venture capitalist as strategist: Of planning, opportunism and deliberate emergence
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Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen
Capturing strategy as an everyday practice: Quantitative methodologies for analysing practice data
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Debbie Harrison
How Business Relationships and Networks influence Strategizing Activities
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Simon Grand, Donald MacLean
Research on Strategy as Practice from a Creative Action Perspective
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Carole Drucker Godard, Isabelle Bouty
The practice of researching strategy as practice: Micro-level and multifaceted data collection process
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Mona Ericson, Leif Melin
Developmental growth as a world of practice
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Sigrid Duschek, Andrea Fried
Strategizing across individual and organizational networks
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Mathieu Detchessahar, Benoît Journé
Reading and writing the organization through management tools: A discursive-based approach of organizing: Proposals from a case study
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Jean-Louis Denis, Lise Lamothe, Ann Langley
Strategize to organize or organize to strategize? Structuration and sensemaking in newly formed organizations
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Jeroen de Jong, Bart Cambré, John Goedee, Rob Jansen
The strategic use of email in strategic decision making processes
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Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Leandre Gomez
Organizations as practice portfolio: Towards a conceptual/exploratory attempt
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Cécile Belmondo
Progressive building of macro attention structures: A taxonomy of micro activities and a longitudinal study of strategic knowledge creation within a business intelligence unit
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Andy Bailey, Steve Kempster
Learning the dance of the strategist: The importance of an experienced partner
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Magali Ayache, Hervé Laroche
The practices of justification: How managers face strategic accountability
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2006 Papers

Gerardo Jose Zapata-Rotundo; Maria Teresa Canet-Giner; Fernando Juan Peris-Bonet
Strategic Choice & Vision: A Way of Shaping the Organization
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Harald Tuckermann, Widar von Arx and Johannes Rüegg-Stürm
HOW ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES ACT AS A STRATEGY GENERATING PRINCIPLE
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Santa La Rocca
THE STRATEGY WAY TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL APPROACH: A view from a perspective of difference and mediation
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Stephanie R. Baron-Gay
THE METACONVERSATION OF STRATEGIC DISCOURSE
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Jin Feng Uen and Shenchen W. Chang
The influence of external institutional power on HRM system- The case of high-tech manufacturing industries in Taiwan
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Christoph Hellmann and Andreas Rasche
Strategy practices– what they are (not)
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Patrick Regnér
Strategy as practice – Towards a more dynamic strategy view?
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Efthinios Poulis and Paul Jackson
Complexity and Dynamic Capabilities
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Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun and David Seidl
Five key questions and a conceptual framework for strategy-as-practice research
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David Seidl
The organizational field of strategy from a systemic perspective
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Daniel Kauer, Tanja zu Waldeck and Utz Schäffer
IMPROVING TEAM AGGREGATION METHODS OF UPPER-ECHELON RESEARCH
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Robert Chia and Robert MacKay
POST-PROCESSUAL CHALLENGES FOR THE EMERGING STRATEGY-AS-PRACTICE PERSPECTIVE: FINDING LOGIC IN THE PRACTICE ITSELF
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Gerhard Smid, Hans Derksen and George Bernaert
Innovation-as-practice, implications for management & education
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Clare Gately and James Cunningham
Strategizing and the Strategist in Growth-oriented SMEs
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Emilio E. Bellini
Strategy as Practices in Knowing Communities: the Human Resource Management Practices as Social Constructions
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Chahrazad Abdallah
The “Production” and “Consumption” of strategy in practice: A study of the appropriation of a strategic plan in an artistic organization
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Widar von Arx, Johannes Rüegg-Stürm, Harald Tuckermann
Strategizing - A Passing Context of Interconnected and Ambiguous Practices
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Olivier Babeau, Damon Golsorkhi
Strategizing as a schizophrenic activity: reproducing domination practices as a sine qua non for changing strategic practice
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Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Carole Drucker-Godard
From individual competence to organizational advantage: the case of Haute Cuisine
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Arne Lindseth Bygdås
Enacting Dynamic Capabilities In Distributed Organisational Environments
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Colin Campbell-Hunt
Ordnungsleistung and the limits of managerial agency in strategy-as-practice
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Joyce Falkenberg, Inger Stensaker
How strategizing can overcome the dichotomous tensions in implementation
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Evelyn Fenton, Paula Jarzabkowski
The Mutual Shaping of Strategizing and Organizing in Pluralistic Contexts
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Herve Mesure
The misunderstood fabrication of strategy in the context of the international SME
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Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond
Strategic Decision-Making as a ‘Performative Praxis’: (Re)Constructing Rationality in Organizations
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Kajsa Haag, Jenny Helin, Leif Melin
Practices of Communication in the Strategic Context of SuccessioPractices Succession
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Christoph Hellmann, Andreas Rasche
Strategy Practices - What they are (not)
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Markus Hällgren, Anders Söderholm
Patterns of Deviation - A "Projects-as-Practice" Approach
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Christina Hoon
Strategic Capacity as a Prerequisite for Strategizing Activities of Managers
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Benoit Journe, Nathalie Raulet-Croset
The Concept of Situation: A key concept in the studying of strategizing and organizing practices in a context of risk
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Sarah Kaplan, Paula Jarzabkowski
Using strategy tools in practice – how tools mediate strategizing and organizing
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Jean-Louis Denis, Geneviève Dompierre, Ann Langley, Linda Rouleau
Escalating indecision: The micro-dynamics of strategic instability
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Céline Legrand, Veronika Kisfalvi
Managing transitions at the top / Impacts of CEO transitions
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Saku Mantere, Pekka Aula
Strategy-as-Tragedy - The Narrative Construction of Strategy Failure
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Miia Martinsuo, Heini Ikävalko
Strategizing Through Projects - Practices and strategy realization in single projects and project portfolios
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Debbie Harrison, Seonaidh McDonald
Academic Teams as External Actors: The Impacts of Strategy Theories-in-Use within Strategizing Processes
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Valérie-Inès de la Ville, Eleonore Mounoud
A narrative view on strategizing and organising: the multiple stories of a regional, public yet self-designed, organisation
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Daniel Nyberg, Frank Muelller
“Ohh, the Cultures are very Different”: Constructing Distinctiveness in the Face of Strategic Change
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Örsan Örge
A processual analysis of the organizing/strategizing divide: a case study of an entrepreneurial setting
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Stefan Jonsson, Patrick Regner
Normative Barriers to Imitation: Social Complexity of Core Competences in a Mutual Fund Industry
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Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun, David Seidl
Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective
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Joris E Van Wezemael
The transformation of the Planning System - Making the change program work
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M. J. Mckeown
A Merger of Equals
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Max J. Mckeown
Critical Success Factors & Forces
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Max Mckeown
I’m Not Bad, They Just Draw Me That Way
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Rafael Pastor
History Makers: Building a generative and learning ontology for entrepreneurial strategic thinkers
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Gerardo Patriotta, Simona Spedale
Between Controversies and Face Games: Senesemaking and Decision Making in a Consultancy Task Force
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John Storey
Strategising and the Use of Business Knowledge
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Sari Stenfors, Leena Tanner
Evaluating Strategy Tools through Activity Lens
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Pete Thomas
Strategizing is Organizing?: Does Practice Add Anything to Strategy, and Does Strategy Add anything to Organizing?
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Marc Thompson
Linking Innovation and Strategic Renewal:Understanding the Roles of Social Architecture
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Sandra Pereira Trigo
Consultants as ‘preying mantises’? Exploring consultants’ contributions to strategizing practices
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Brian Vejrum Sørensen & Harry Boer
Linking Diverse Levels of Activity - A Key Challenge of Organisational Renewal
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2005 Papers

Microdynamics and Strategic Tensions in a Top Management Team
Veronika Kisfalvi, Viviane Sergi, Ann Langley, Céline Legrand
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Torsten Schmid
The Strategist as Pragmatist Empirical Insights into the Practice of Managing Strategic Initiatives and Renewal in Large Firms
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Susan Miller and David Wilson
Locked in and locked out: involvement and influence in strategizing processes
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Sotirios Paroutis and Andrew Pettigrew
Strategizing in Multibusiness Firms: Making and Executing Strategy across Multiple Levels and over Time
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Sarah Kaplan and Wanda Orlikowski
The temporality of strategic making: a structurational model of how framing of the past, present and future shape strategic choice under uncertainty
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Sandra Trigo, Duncan Angwin, David C. Wilson
Strategic Decision Making Processes: do consultants contribute to unlock these strategising events?
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David Seidl, Robert Macintosh, Donald MacLean
Strategic episodes and the suppression and elevation of organisational inconsistencies: An endogenous theory of organisational transformation
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Robert Chia, Brad MacKay, Swapnesh Masrani
Capabilities as Structuring Dispositions: Reframing Core Competencies in Practice Terms
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Paula Jarzabkowski and David Seidl
Meetings as strategizing episodes in the becoming of organizational strategy
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Patrick Regnér
Identifying Inertia – Processes and Practices in the Development of Strategy Lock – in
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Michael Kaschewsky and Paula Jarzabkowski
Reinvent the rules: A social practice framework for investigating strategic innovation in the peripheries
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Manuela O. Nocker
“Impromptu”: Project strategy as enacted team narrative of improvisation
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Kenneth Kongsvold, Roger Klev, Ragnhild Kvålshaugen
Making strategy happen The leader as a strategist in knowledge intensive companies
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John Sillince and Frank Mueller
STRATEGY REVERSALS AND THE REFRAMING OF ACCOUNTS OF
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Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley, Linda Rouleau
The Power of Numbers in Strategizing
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Gerry Johnson, Shameen Prashantham, Steven W Floyd
Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Strategy Workshops
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Eric Vogler
Front Line and middle management in service firms:Micro-strategizing locally and running a strategic conversation with the corporate level
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Eric van‘t Hof
“Interim management: the acting of executive change managers”
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Claus D. Jacobs and Loizos Th. Heracleous
EMBODIED METAPHORS IN ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
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Annie Pye
Unlocking strategizing: some (key) questions of theorie and practice
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Andreas Rasche
Unlocking Strategy Process Research –The Contribution of Deconstruction to a Practice Perspective on Strategy
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Abdallah Chahrazed
The production and appropriation of a strategic “text” in an artistic organization
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2004 Papers

Gerard P. Hodgkinson, Ian Clarke
Toward a cognitive resource theory of strategic decision-making
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Simon Grand, Daniel Bartl, Johannes Rüegg-Stürm
Time in strategy practice: Insights from a conventionalist perspective
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Robert Chia
Strategy-in-Action
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Serghei Floricel, Ann Langley
Strategy as dynamic leverage
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Quentin Damon Golsorkhi
Strategy as Practice : what can methodological individualism teach us?
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Virpi Hämäläinen
Enacting organizational identity in the context of a takeover: a discursive view
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Loizos Heracleous
An Organizational Action View of Strategy
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Christina Hoon
The impact of middle management in processes of change
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Heini Ikävalko
Structuration of strategy process. Middle managers and practices in strategy implementation
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Claus D. Jacobs, Johan Roos, Matt Statler
Analogical reasoning as a practice of strategy
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John A.A. Sillince, Paula Jarzabkowski
A process theory of multiple identity management and strategic action
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Pikka-Maaria Laine, Eero Vaara
On the discursive construction of strategy and strategy work
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Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley, Linda Rouleau
Studying Strategizing in Pluralistic Contexts: A methodological agenda
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R.Bradley Mackay
What if? The role of counterfactual reasoning in micro-strategizing and organizational becoming
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Saku Mantere, Eero Vaara
Metaphors as discursive practices. Exploring the metaphoric construction of strategy and strategizing
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Jonathan Menuhin, Manuela Faia-Correia
Routine changing process: Understanding the dynamics of organizational practices modification
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Susan Miller, David C. Wilson
The Dynamics of "Connectedness" in Strategic Decision Making
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Eamonn Molloy, Evelyn Fenton, Richard Whittington
Changing Things
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Carlo Salvato
Micro-foundations of competitive advantage: A field study in the evolution of dynamic capabilities
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Mirela Schwarz
Strategy Workshops for Strategic Reviews: Components, Practices and Roles of Actors
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Jill Sheperd
Measuring micro-evolutionary strategic dynamics: A methdological contribution?
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Richard Whittington, Gerry Johnson, Leif Melin
The Emerging Field of Strategy Practice: Some Links, a Trap, a Choice and a Confusion
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2003 Papers

Whittington R, Jarzabkowski P, Mayer M., Mounoud E, Nahapiet J. and Rouleau L.
“Taking Strategy Seriously: Responsibility and Reform of an Important Social Practice”, Journal of Management Inquiry, 12, 4, 396-409.
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John Hendry and David Seidl
The structure and significance of strategic episodes: social systems theory and the routine practices of strategic change
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Amy Muller and Liisa Välikangas
Strategy Creation in Turbulent Times
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Richard Whittington
Practice Perspectives on Strategy:
Unifying and Developing a Field

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Richard Whittington
The Work of strategizing and organizing: for a practice perspective
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Valèrie-Ines de la Ville
What do we mean by "Strategy as Practice?"
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Paula Jarzabkowski
Relevance in Theory & Revelance in Practice:
Strategy Theory in Practice

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Gerry Johnson, Stuart Smith, Brian Codling
Exploring Micro Processes of Institutional Change;
the role of the industrial actor

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Olof Brunninge
Identity and strategic change during an acquisition process
Micro processes around Handelsbanken’s acquisition of Stadshypotek

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Simon Grand, Donald MacLean
Creative Destruction and Creative Action:
Path Dependence and Path Creation in Innovation and Change

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David Seidl
The role of general strategy concepts in the practice of strategy
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Dr Annie Pye
Making sense of (the explanatory function of) strategizing
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Ethel Brundin, Leif Melin
Unfolding the Dynamics of Emotions in Strategizing:
How Emotion Drives or Counteracts Change Activities

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Saku Mantere
Champions of the Strategy Process:
A structuration viewpoint

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Petri Aaltonen
Actions that realise Strategy
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Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley, Linda Rouleau
Strategizing in Pluralistic Contexts:
Rethinking Theoretical Frames

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Inger Stensaker, Joyce Falkenberg, Kjell Grønhaug
Strategizing:
The Role of Sensemaking and Sensegiving

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Fred H. Strønen, Bente R. Løwendahl
Micro Strategy and Strategizing
Analysis of a Catering Firm Strategy from a Loosely Coupled Perspective

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