Dear All
We have a strategy-as-practice sub-plenary at EGOS on Friday 8th July at 11-12.30 am in Naples. We expect to have a spirited debate with some of the key speakers in the field. Hope to see many of you there.
Topic: Strategy as Practice: Problems, perspectives and prospects
Chair: Paula Jarzabkowski
Panellists: Julia Balogun, Robert Chia, David Seidl, Richard Whittington
This sub-plenary will discuss key debates in the field of strategy-as-practice research, pointing to the successes that have enabled it to grow rapidly into a strong body of scholarship that includes a Handbook (second edition), numerous articles, and special issues of leading journals. In part it will examine the profusion of perspectives that have enabled this rapid growth. At the same time it will probe some of the problems that beset the field, such as the extent to which strategy-as-practice research should continue to "let 1000 flowers bloom", and indeed further open up to and engage with other avenues of strategy research, from dynamic capabilities, to broader theories of competition and firms in markets, or whether it is time to draw boundaries. At the same time, the sub-plenary will discuss distinctions between, and similarities with, strategy process research. Another key debate is whether criticisms that strategy-as-practice is too focused on micro-strategizing continue to hold, or whether such distinctions are based in a dualistic concept of micro-macro that needs to be dissolved through flatter, more practice-based ontologies. The panelists have all been founders of, and key contributors to, this body of scholarship and will engage in a lively debate, based on their often quite different perspectives on strategy as practice and its future prospects. The sub-plenary will conclude with some critical reflections on the field and its challenges going forward.
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Prof. David Seidl, PhD
Chair of Organization & Management | University of Zurich
Universitaetstrasse 84 | 8006 Zurich | Switzerland
david.seidl@uzh.ch | www.om.uzh.ch
Phone : +41 44 634 37 50
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