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Strategy‐as‐practice: reflections on the research agenda
Author(s) -
Chia Robert
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500012
Subject(s) - habitus , consistency (knowledge bases) , sociology , action (physics) , practice theory , epistemology , resource (disambiguation) , style (visual arts) , knowledge management , computer science , social science , computer network , philosophy , physics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , cultural capital , history , quantum mechanics
Strategy‐as‐practice has become an important alternative to the hitherto dominant institutional and resource‐based approaches to strategy research. This paper examines some of the underlying conceptions of ‘practice’ and its implications for researching the micro‐practices of strategizing. It concludes with the observation that the notion of habitus is a better way of understanding how consistency and hence strategy in action is achieved and how we might begin to understand strategy‐as‐practice in terms of a certain style of engagement.