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Call for Submissions of Papers: EGOS 2015
Strategy-as-Practice: Cognition, Emotions & Strategizing (Subtheme 61)
Julia Balogun, Jane Lê & Feng Liu
Strategy-as-practice researchers view strategy as a social activity; in other words, as something that members of an organization actually do. As such, the focus of research in this area has been on the micro-activities and interactions of actors in and around the organization, both in terms of what actors do in practice and how they accomplish it. Due to this explicit focus on activity, SAP scholars have dedicated significant effort to understanding strategic behaviour. This has yielded extremely valuable insights. However, it has also partially overshadowed other important types of practices, including cognition and emotion.
This subtheme thus calls on scholars to advance our understanding of strategy practice by producing research that illuminates the link between cognition, emotion and behaviour in strategy. Studies of cognition have demonstrated that meaning-making processes are critical to how strategy is conceptualised and executed (Balogun and Johnson, 2004, 2005; Rouleau, 2005; Rouleau and Balogun, 2011). Studies of emotion have demonstrated that emotional dynamics influence interpretations of strategy and thereby how strategy is enacted (Bartunek, Balogun & Do, 2011; Cornelissen, Mantere and Vaara, forthcoming; Liu and Maitlis, 2014; Samra-Fredericks, 2004). Cognition and emotion are thus clearly important in strategy processes but must be better understood in relation to strategic behaviour. Our CfP is motivated by this need. We thus seek papers that explore the reciprocal relationship between cognition, emotion and strategy behaviour. We also welcome papers on other strategy-as-practice topics, including conceptual and empirical papers utilizing a range of methodological approaches. For more information on the practice perspective on strategizing see
www.s-as-p.org.
For more information on this EGOS subtheme and to upload your short paper, please visit:
http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1392376003637&subtheme_id=1368705963718
We look forward to seeing you in Athens!
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Dr. Feng Liu
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Warwick Business School
Room c2.05
Tel.: 50089