Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice

Edited by Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel, Research Associate, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Queensland, Australia and City St George’s, University of London, UK, Renate Kratochvil, Assistant Professor in Strategy, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, David Seidl, Professor of Organization and Management, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Paul Spee, Professor in Strategy, University of Queensland, Australia and Richard Whittington, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Oxford, UK

‘This is an impressively encyclopedic Encyclopedia! The breadth of entries, alone, makes it a remarkably useful resource for anyone who wants to know more about SAP and the many theoretical, methodological and topical areas that SAP draws on, connects with and contributes to. Each entry provides an excellent overview useful to both novices and experts in the field.’

• ContentsPreface xvIntroduction 1Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel,Paula Jarzabkowski, RenateKratochvil, David Seidl, Paul Speeand Richard WhittingtonPART 1 THEORETICALPERSPECTIVES 81.1 Activity theory 9Emma Gritt and Emma Forsgren1.2 Actor network theory 12Chris Chapman and Wai-Fong Chua1.3 Constructivism 15Simon Grand1.4 Critical realism 20Alistair Mutch1.5 Discourse theory 23Loizos Heracleous1.6 Economies of worth model 26Charlotte Cloutier1.7 Ethics perspective 29Ignas M. Bruder1.8 Framing theory 34Alexander Engelmann andGeorg Reischauer1.9 Ontology 37Haridimos Tsoukas1.10 Phenomenology 42Jörgen Sandberg1.11 Practice theories 47Violetta Splitter, DavidSeidl and Richard Whittington1.12 Role theory 52Martin Friesl and Annabelle Müller1.13 Sensemaking 56Linda Rouleau andCharlotte Cloutier1.14 Structuration theory 60Tamim Elbasha1.15 Assemblage theory 63Vern L. Glaser and Jennifer Sloan1.16 Bourdieu 66Violetta Splitter and Marie-Léandre Gomez1.17 De Certeau 69Daniel Hjorth1.18 Foucault 74Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet1.19 Garfinkel 78Andrea Whittle1.20 Giddens 83Richard Whittington1.21 Goffman and dramaturgy 85Andrea Whittle1.22 Heidegger 90Robin Holt and Mike Zundel1.23 Luhmann 95Rikke Albertsen, AndreasRasche and David Seidl1.24 MacIntyre 97Caleb Bernacchio1.25 Mintzberg 100Filipe Sousa1.26 Schatzki 104Georg LoscherPART 2 CONCEPTS 1082.1 Affordance 109Yassine Talaoui and MarkoKohtamäki2.2 Agency 111Krsto Pandza2.3 Agility 114Birgit Renzl, Daniel Gäckleand Christian A. Mahringer2.4 Ambidexterity 117Birgit Renzl and Universityof Stuttgart, Germany,Juliane MöllmannAarhusUniversity, Denmark2.5 Ambiguity 121ChahrazadAbdallahUniversité duQuébec à Montréal2.6 Boundary objects 124Paul SpeeUniversity of Queensland2.7 Boundary work 128Ann LangleyHEC Montréaland University of Warwick2.8 Bricolage 131Miguel Pina e CunhaNovaSBE, Universidade Nova deLisboa, miguel.cunha@novasbe.pt2.9 Communities of Practice 134Igor PyrkoUniversity of Bath2.10 Embodiment 138Laure Cabantous and Nora Meziani2.11 Emergence 142Jochen Koch2.12 Habitus 147Marie-Léandre Gomez andIsabelle Bouty2.13 Identity 150David Oliver2.14 Institutional logics 154Torben Trapp and John Amis2.15 Legitimacy 158Christopher W.J. Steele2.16 Linguistic turn 162Eero Vaara2.17 Micro-isolationism 165Richard Whittington andOxford University andDavid Seidl University of Zurich2.18 Mindfulness 168Ravi S. KudesiaTemple University2.19 Multimodality 172Elisa Lehrer, MatthiasWenzel and Eric Knight2.20 Narrative 175Anniina Rantakari andUniversity of Oulu BusinessSchool and Jeannie HolsteinLoughborough Business School2.21 Normativity 179Ignas M. Bruder2.22 Organization 182Alwin Baumhöver andLeonhard Dobusch2.23 Paradox 185Rebecca Bednarek andVictoria University ofWellington) and JaneLêWHU – Otto BeisheimSchool of Management)2.24 Performativity 189Laure Cabantous2.25 Polyphony 193Josh Morton and Universityof Leeds, UK and EeroVaaraUniversity of Oxford, UK2.26 Power 197Stewart Clegg2.27 Practical consciousness 202Haridimos Tsoukas2.28 Practice Turn 206Peter SmithUniversity of Auckland2.29 Practices 210Milena Leybold, LinzInstitute for TransformativeChange, Johannes Keplerand University Linz, Austriaand Leonhard DobuschDepartment of Organization& Learning, University ofInnsbruck, Austria2.30 Practitioners 213Richard Whittington2.31 Praxis 219Charlotte Cloutier and Alana Pierce2.32 Rationality 224Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu2.33 Recursiveness 229Paula Jarzabkowski2.34 Reflexivity 233Paul Hibbert2.35 Serendipity 237Jochen Koch and Paul Vetter2.36 Situatedness 240Vern L. Glaser and AlbertaSchool of Business,University of Alberta andKrista PettitIvey School of Business2.37 Sociomateriality 244Viviane Sergi, Universitédu Québec à Montréal,Consuelo Vásquez,Université du Québecà Montréal, FrançoisCooren and Universitéde Montréal and NicolasBencherkiUniversité TÉLUQ2.38 Space 248Tania Räcker2.39 Strategic episode 252Silke Bucher, ShameenPrashantham and David Seidl2.40 Strategizing 257Paula Jarzabkowski2.41 Tacit knowledge 261Linda Rouleau andCharlotte Cloutier2.42 Time and temporality 266Lorenzo Skade, FleurDeken and Majken Schultz2.43 Visual turn 269Safoora Wajahat, YvonneBreyer and Eric KnightPART 3 METHODOLGICALRESOURCES 2753.1 Action research 276Robert MacIntosh3.2 Autoethnography 280Alex WrightAudenciaBusiness School, Nantes, France3.3 Boundary games analysis 282Jorge Ivan Velez-Castiblanco, EAFITUniversity, Medellin),Diana Londono-Correa andEAFIT University, Medellin)and Luz María Rivas-MontoyaMontoya (EAFITUniversity, Medellín)3.4 Conversation analysis 288Birte Asmuß3.5 Counterfactuals 291Brad MacKay3.6 Critical discourse analysis 294Ali Bakhit and Universityof Edinburgh and WinstonKwonUniversity of Edinburgh3.7 Ethnography 298Katharina Dittrich3.8 Ethnomethodology 302Betsy CampbellPhD,Associate Professor,Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Pennsylvania, USA3.9 Experiments 306Christoph Brielmaier,University of Bamberg,Thomas Ortner, Universityof Innsbruck, Julia Hautzand University of Innsbruckand Martin FrieslUniversityof Bamberg & NHHNorwegian School of Economics3.10 Interviews 309Shenghui Ma and FudanUniversity and DavidSeidlUniversity of Zurich3.11 Netnography 313Christian Bruck3.12 Photographic approaches inStrategy as Practice research 318Ace Beorchia, KennesawState University, JaewooJung and Universityof Dayton and AnneSmithUniversity ofTennessee Knoxville3.13 Process research methods 323Renate Kratochvil andStockholm School ofEconomics and AnnLangleyHEC Montréal &University of Warwick3.14 Quantitative methods 327Tomi Laamanen, Universityof St. Gallen, Switzerland),Emmanuelle Reuter,University of Neuchâtel,Switzerland), MarkusSchimmer, Accenture,Switzerland), FlorianUeberbacher and MBSSchool of Business, France)and Xena WelchRotterdamSchool of Management,Erasmus University, theNetherlands)3.15 Researching large-scalephenomena 332Renate Kratochvil,Stockholm School ofEconomics), TheresaLangenmayr and Universityof Zurich) and DavidSeidlUniversity of Zurich)3.16 Shadowing 335Consuelo Vásquez,Université du Québec àMontréal, Canada), NicolasBencherki, UniversitéTÉLUQ, Canada), FrançoisCooren and Université deMontréal, Canada) andViviane SergiESG UQAM, Canada)3.17 Textual analysis 339Cole E. Short3.18 Topic modeling 343Vern L. Glaser, AlbertaSchool of Business,University of Alberta),Timothy R. Hanniganand Telfer School ofManagement, University ofOttawa) and P. DevereauxJenningsAlberta School ofBusiness, University of Alberta)3.19 Video ethnography 348Jarryd Daymond3.20 Visual methods 351David R. Stiles, Universityof Canterbury, NewZealand), Guy W. Bate andUniversity of Auckland,New Zealand) and PaulKnottUniversity ofCanterbury, New Zealand)PART 4 PHENOMENA 3554.1 Affect 356Alex Wright4.2 Artefacts 358Romain Vacquier andStéphanie Dameron4.3 Artificial Intelligence instrategizing 363Katharina Cepa4.4 Calculative practices 366Elena Giovannoni andBirmingham BusinessSchool, Universityof Birmingham, UK;University of Siena,Italy) and PaoloQuattroneAllianceManchester BusinessSchool, UK; StockholmSchool of Economics, Sweden)4.5 Chief strategy officers 370Diogo Campos-Teixeira,Eric Knight and Yvonne Breyer4.6 Climate change 373Katharina Dittrich4.7 Competition 377Rebecca Bednarek4.8 Consultants 381Sotirios Paroutis4.9 Corporate politicalstrategizing 384Maria Andrea De Villa4.10 Corporate socialresponsibility 388Dennis Schoeneborn andCopenhagen BusinessSchool & LeuphanaUniversity of Lüneburgand Hannah Trittin-UlbrichLeuphanaUniversity of Lüneburg4.11 Creativity 392Paul Vetter, Neil AaronThompson and Jörg Sydow4.12 Crises 395Silvia Sanasi4.13 Digitalization 400Georg von Krogh, Manuelvon Krosigk and Uriel Stettner4.14 Emotions 405Saouré Kouamé and TelferSchool of Management,University of Ottawa)kouame@telfer.uottawa.caand Feng LiuSaint Mary’sUniversity) feng.Liu@smu.ca4.15 Family businesses 408Kajsa Haag and Leif Melin4.16 Foresight 412Regina Gattringer andJohannes Kepler UniversityLinz) and MatthiasWenzelLeuphana Universityof Lüneburg)4.17 Frontline Strategy Work 415Robert Demir4.18 Future-making 418Matthias Wenzel and Eva-Maria Spreitzer4.19 Gender 420Linda Rouleau and HECMontréal) and RenateKratochvilStockholm Schoolof Economics)4.20 Studying and theorisinggrand challenges withStrategy-as-Practice 425Fannie Couture4.21 Healthcare organizations 429Harald Tuckermann andMatthias Mitterlechner4.22 Imagination 433Emamdeen Fohim andChristina Lüthy4.23 Improvisation 435António Abrantes andMiguel Pina e Cunha4.24 Interorganizationalstrategizing 438Fleur Deken, VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam),f.deken@vu.nl SusanHilbolling and AarhusUniversity), susan@mgmt.au.dk Madalina MadalinaPopAarhus University),madast@btech .au.dk4.25 Issue selling 443Basak Yakis-Douglas4.26 Judgement 447Demetris Hadjimichael andHadjimichael and Igor Pyrko4.27 Meetings 451Olivia Nyikos andUniversity of Edinburgh andWinston Kwon University ofEdinburgh4.28 Mergers and acquisitions 455Duncan Angwin Duncan Angwin4.29 Metaphorical reasoning 459Claus D. Jacobs4.30 Middle managers 463Carola Wolf4.31 Moments of strategy 467Nicolas Bencherki,Université TÉLUQ,Canada, François Cooren,Université de Montréal,Canada, Viviane Sergi andESG UQAM, Canada andConsuelo VásquezUniversitédu Québec à Montréal, Canada4.32 Multinational enterprises 470Annabel Christie andUniversity of EastLondon and EstherTippmannUniversity of Galway4.33 Strategic decision-making and strategizingin municipalities and cityorganizations 473Madalina Pop and AarhusUniversity BSS and EeroVaaraSaïd Business School4.34 Networks 477Sari Laari-Salmela4.35 Neuroscience 482Maria Cristina Cinici andUniversity of Messina,Italy and DanielaBaglieriUniversity of Messina, Italy4.36 Open Strategy 486David Seidl, ViolettaSplitter, BenjaminGrossmann-Hensel andRobin Engelbach4.37 Participation 491Monica Nadegger andLeonhard Dobusch4.38 Path dependence 494Waldemar Kremser andJohannes Kepler UniversitätLinz and Jörg SydowFreieUniversität Berlin4.39 Platforms 498Sotirios Paroutis4.40 Pluralistic contexts 500PaulaJarzabkowskiUniversityof Queensland and City StGeorge’s, University of London4.41 PowerPoint 502Safoora Wajahat, YvonneBreyer and Eric Knight4.42 Practical relevance 505Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel, University ofZurich, David Seidl andUniversity of Zurich andVioletta SplitterOxford University4.43 Project management 508Siavash Alimadadi4.44 Religion 513Mustafa Kavas4.45 Restructuring process 516Oleksandra Kochura4.46 Stakeholder identification andanalysis 519Fran Ackermann, CurtinBusiness School, CurtinUniversity, Perth, Australia,John M. Bryson and HubertH. Humphrey School ofPublic Affairs, Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis,MN USA and ColinEdenStrathclyde BusinessSchool, University ofStrathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland4.47 Start-ups 523Qian Li4.48 Strategic change 525Inger G. Stensaker andNHH Norwegian Schoolof Economics and MartinFrieslUniversity ofBamberg, NHH NorwegianSchool of Economics4.49 Strategic communication 528Loizos Heracleous4.50 Strategic leadership 530Shenghui Ma and FudanUniversity and RenateKratochvilStockholm Schoolof Economics4.51 Strategic planning 534Maria Lusiani andUniversity of Bologna,maria .lusiani@unibo.it andAnn LangleyHEC Montréaland University of Warwick,ann .langley@hec.ca4.52 Strategic plans 539Virpi Sorsa4.53 Strategic tools 544Sotirios Paroutis4.54 Strategizing routines 547Simon GrandUniversity ofSt. Gallen HSG4.55 Strategising underground 550Robert Demir4.56 Strategy implementation 553Ann-Kristin Weiser4.57 Strategy mapping 557John M. Bryson, HubertH. Humphrey School ofPublic Affairs, Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis,MN USA, Fran Ackermannand Curtin BusinessSchool, Curtin University,Perth, Australia and ColinEdenStrathclyde BusinessSchool, University ofStrathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland4.58 Strategy models 561Patia J. McGrath4.59 The strategy profession 565Professor Duncan Angwin4.60 Strategy teams 569Sotirios Paroutis4.61 Strategy text 571Alex WrightAudenciaBusiness School, Nantes, France4.62 Strategy work 573Alex WrightAudenciaBusiness School, Nantes, France4.63 Strategy Workshops 576Mark P. Healey and GerardP. Hodgkinson4.64 Sustainability 579Elisabeth Krull andUniversity of Manchesterand Jonatan PinkseKing’sCollege London4.65 Teaching SAP 582Sotirios Paroutis4.66 Technology 585Guy W. Bate, University ofAuckland, New Zealand,David R. Stiles andPaul KnottUniversity ofCanterbury, New Zealand4.67 Top managers 589Shenghui Ma4.68 Trust 592Dilek Zamantılı Nayır4.69 Voices 594Ellen Nathues and Nicolas BencherkiPART 5 RELATIONS TOOTHER COMMUNITIES 5985.1 Accounting as practice 599Thomas Ahrens5.2 Attention-based view 602Martin Friesl, University ofBamberg, NHH NorwegianSchool of Economics,Christoph Brielmaier,University of Bamberg,Matthew Hurst andUniversità della Svizzeraitaliana and DavideNicoliniUniversity of Warwick5.3 Behavioral strategy 605Gerard P. Hodgkinson andMark P. Healey5.4 CCO 610François Cooren, Universitéde Montréal, Canada),Viviane Sergi, ESG UQAM,Canada), Consuelo Vásquezand UQAM, Canada) andNicolas Bencherki UniversitéTÉLUQ, Canada)5.5 Critical perspectives 614Martin Blom5.6 Diversity, equity, andonclusion 617Theresa Langenmayr,University of Zurich), JanneTienariand Hanken Schoolof Economics) and ChinueUeckerStrayer University)5.7 Entrepreneurship as practice 621Charis Owuraku Asante-Agyei and SyracuseUniversity and Neil A.ThompsonVrije UniversiteitAmsterdam5.8 Institutionalism 625Michael Smets, Universityof Oxford, Deborah A.Anderson and Universityof Alabama and KevinMcSweeneyOklahoma StateUniversity5.9 International business 629Toke Bjerregaard5.10 Leadership as practice 633Joseph A. Raelin