Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: What is strategy-as-practice? Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara; Part I. Epistemological Streams: 1. Practice in research: phenomenon, perspective and philosophy Wanda Orlikowski; 2. Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy-as-practice: building and dwelling worldviews Robert Chia and Andreas Rasche; 3. Practice, strategy making and intentionality: a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for strategy-as-practice Haridimos Tsoukas; 4. Constructivist epistemologies in strategy-as-practice research Simon Grand, Johannes Rüegg-Stürm and Widar von Arx; 5. Constructing contribution in 'strategy-as-practice' research Karen Golden-Biddle and Jason Azuma; 6. The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about strategy-as-practice Ann Langley; Part II. Theoretical Directions: 7. Giddens, structuration theory and strategy-as-practice Richard Whittington; 8. An activity-theory approach to strategy-as-practice Paula Jarzabkowski; 9. A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing Saku Mantere; 10. A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing Marie-Le;andre Gomez; 11. A Foucauldian perspective on strategic practice: strategy as the art of (un)folding Florence Allard-Poesi; 12. A narrative approach to strategy-as-practice: strategy-making from texts and narratives Vale;rie-Ine;s de La Ville and Ele;onore Mounoud; Part III. Methodological Tracks: 13. Broader methods to support new insights into strategizing Anne Sigismund Huff, Anne-Katrin Neyer and Kathrin Möslein; 14. Critical discourse analysis as methodology in strategy-as-practice research Eero Vaara; 15. Researching everyday practice: the ethnomethodological contribution Dalvir Samra-Fredericks; 16. Researching strategists and their identity in practice: building close-with relationships Phyl Johnson, Julia Balogun and Nic Beech; 17. Studying strategizing through narratives of practice Linda Rouleau; Part IV. Application Variations: 18. Institutional change and strategic agency: an empirical analysis of managers' experimentation with routines in strategic decision-making Gerry Johnson, Stuart Smith and Brian Codling; 19. Unpacking the effectivity paradox of strategy workshops: do strategy workshops produce strategic change? Robert MacIntosh, Donald MacLean and David Seidl; 20. Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development Pikka-Maaria Laine and Eero Vaara; 21. Strategizing and history Mona Ericson and Leif Melin; Index.
Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice. ISBN 9780521517287. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.