Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Andreas Paul (2009). Strategy-as-practice:a review and future directions for the field. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 11 (1), pp. 69-95.
Abstract
This review maps and critically evaluates the rapidly growing body of research in the strategy-as-practice field. Following an introduction on the emergence and foundations of strategy-as-practice, the review is structured in three main parts, based on the terminology, issues and research agendas outlined in the field. First, the paper examines the concepts of practitioners and praxis. A typology of nine possible domains for strategy-as-practice research is developed, based on the way that different studies conceptualize the strategy practitioner and the level of strategy praxis that they aim to explain. Second, the paper reviews the concept of practices, which has been adopted widely but inconsistently within the strategy-as-practice literature. While there is no dominant view on practices, the review maps the various concepts of practices that inform the strategy-as-practice field and outlines avenues for future research. The final section attends to the call for strategy-as-practice research to develop and substantiate outcomes that may better explain or inform strategy praxis. Five categories of outcomes are found within existing empirical studies, and an agenda for building upon this evidence is advanced. The paper concludes with a summation of the current state of the field and some recommendations on how to take strategy-aspractice research forward.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2008.00250.x |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School |
Additional Information: | Jarzabkowski, P., & Spee, A. P. (2009). Strategy-as-practice: a review and future directions for the field. International journal of management and decision making, 11(1), 69-95. The definitive version is available at www.interscience.wiley.com |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | strategy-as-practice,Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,General Decision Sciences |
Publication ISSN: | 1741-5187 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 08:07 |
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2009 14:59 |
Full Text Link: |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2009-03 |
Authors: |
Jarzabkowski, Paula
Spee, Andreas Paul |