Dear friends and colleagues,
We are happy to announce the publication of a Perspectives Issue of ORGANIZATION STUDIES on "Broadening the Strategy as Practice Agenda: Towards Taller and Flatter Ontologies". Perspectives Issues are a new type of special issues in which the genealogy of a theme is sketched out, building on previous papers in ORGANIZATION STUDIES and other journals. This particular Perspectives Issue brings together conceptual papers in Strategy-as-Practice that explore different theoretical approaches to the relation between local strategizing activity and 'larger' social phenomena. In our introductory paper, we organize the different approaches according to how far they lean towards either 'tall' or 'flat' ontologies and outline their respective strengths and weaknesses. Against this background, we develop three broad guidelines that can help protect against empirical micro-isolationism, i.e. the tendency to explain local activities in their own terms, and thereby extend the scope of Strategy-as-Practice research.
To celebrate the publication of the first Perspectives Issue of ORGANIZATION STUDIES, the publisher is granting free access to all papers included in the issue.
You can access the introductory paper at the following address:
http://oss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/11/0170840614541886.full.pdf+html
The full Perspectives Issue can be accessed at the following address: http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/strategy_as_practice
We hope that you find this Perspectives Issue of interest.
All the best
Richard and David
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Prof. David Seidl, PhD
Chair of Organization & Management
University of Zurich | Department of Business Administration
Universitaetsstrasse 84 | 8006 Zurich | Switzerland
Phone +41.44.6343750 | Fax +41.44.6343749
www.om.uzh.ch | david.seidl@uzh.ch
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