Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice - Softcover

Golsorkhi, Damon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110761998X ISBN 13: 9781107619982

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides the first comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores and explains the contribution that strategizing makes to daily operations at all levels of an organization. Moving away from a disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, the strategy-as-practice approach breaks down many of the traditional paradigmatic boundaries in strategy to investigate who the strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences or outcomes of their actions are. Including a number of detailed empirical studies, the handbook will be an essential guide for future research in this vibrant field.

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Review

I enjoyed reading this book. Its various well-written contributions offer rich connections between strategy as praxis (in the original sense of doing ) and several major modern anthropological, sociological and philosophical theories. For years to come, it will form a valuable intellectual substratum from which truly novel and unexpected research ideas will emerge. Robert A. Burgelman, Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and author of Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company s Future (2002)

Book Description

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides a comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. Including a number of detailed empirical studies, the handbook will be an essential guide for future research in this vibrant field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110761998X
• ISBN 13: 9781107619982
• Binding: Paperback