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Practices of Strategizing
Type
fundamental research project
Start Date
01 June 2007
End Date
31 May 2008
Status
completed
Keywords
strategy
practices
praxis
Description
Since strategy has been traditionally conceived of as a rational, teleological and objective process, it has privileged concepts and theories that neglected understanding of the interpretive aspects of strategic praxis (what practitioners do) and practices (regularities and aggregations of strategic praxes). Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore administrative, discursive, and episodic practices of strategy formation.
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Eprints ID
35075
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PublicationPerforming strategy - Analogical reasoning as strategic practiceAnalogical reasoning refers to the successful transfer of structural similarities from a source to a target domain. In strategic management research, this concept has materialized in approaches such as strategic mapping. Yet, the concept and its application seem to have emphasized primarily the cognitive aspects of analogical reasoning. Bourdieu's concept of practice allows us to explore analogical reasoning in a more integral manner, i.e., by presenting embodied aspects of analogical reasoning as complementary to the cognitive aspects, and equally relevant for strategic organizational development processes. Thus, we conceptualize analogical reasoning as a practice of strategy and illustrate this concept with an empirical case.Type: journal articleJournal: Academy of Management Best Paper ProceedingsIssue: 2006