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Taking historical embeddedness seriously : Three historical approaches to advance strategy process and practice research
- Source :
- Academy of Management Review (The), Academy of Management Review (The), 2016, 633-657 p, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management, 2016, 633-657 p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2016.
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Abstract
- International audience; Despite the proliferation of strategy process and practice research, we lack understanding of the historical embeddedness of strategic processes and practices. In this paper, we present three historical approaches with the potential to remedy this deficiency. First, realist history can contribute to a better understanding of the historical embeddedness of strategic processes; in particular, comparative historical analysis can explicate the historical conditions, mechanisms, and causality in strategic processes. Second, interpretative history can add to our knowledge of the historical embeddedness of strategic practices, and microhistory can specifically help to understand the construction and enactment of these practices in historical contexts. Third, poststructuralist history can elucidate the historical embeddedness of strategic discourses, and genealogy can in particular increase our understanding of the evolution and transformation of strategic discourses and their power effects. Thus, this paper demonstrates how in their specific ways historical approaches and methods can add to our understanding of different forms and variations of strategic processes and practices, the historical construction of organizational strategies, and historically constituted strategic agency.
- Subjects :
- Comparative history
Embeddedness
Process (engineering)
Strategy and Management
Agency (philosophy)
Microhistory
strategy process
Practice research
060104 history
Power (social and political)
discourse theory
comparative history
strategy implementation
practise theory
Management of Technology and Innovation
0502 economics and business
0601 history and archaeology
ta615
process
Sociology
Social science
genealogy
microhistory
[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
ta512
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
General Business, Management and Accounting
Causality
practice
strategy-as-practice
Epistemology
embeddedness
[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
discourse
strategy
[SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03637425
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Academy of Management Review (The), Academy of Management Review (The), 2016, 633-657 p, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management, 2016, 633-657 p
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d2afaec2348025be939b5caa54807dd