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Strategy-in-practices : a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes
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dc.contributor.author | Mackay, Brad | |
dc.contributor.author | Chia, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Nair, Anup | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-06T16:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-06T16:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mackay , B , Chia , R & Nair , A 2020 , ' Strategy- in -practices : a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes ' , Human Relations , vol. Online First , pp. 1-33 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720929397 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0018-7267 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 267506251 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 39bb59a1-c813-4130-957a-da5e28c71d17 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000542387500001 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85086701523 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8737-3018/work/82788684 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20212 | |
dc.description.abstract | Emergence of a firm’s strategy is of central concern to both Strategy Process (SP) and Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) scholars. While SP scholars view strategy emergence as a long-term macro conditioning process, SAP advocates concentrate on the episodic micro ‘doing’ of strategy actors in formal strategy planning settings. Neither perspective explains satisfactorily how process and practice relate in strategy emergence to produce tangible organizational outcomes. The conundrum of reconciling the macro/micro distinction implied in process and practice stems from a shared Substantialist metaphysical commitment that attributes strategy emergence to substantive entities. In this article, we draw on Process metaphysics and the practice-turn in social philosophy and theory to propose a Strategy-in-Practices (SIP) perspective. SIP emphasizes how the multitude of coping actions taken at the ‘coal-face’ of an organization congeal inadvertently over time into an organizational modus operandi that provides the basis for strategizing. Strategy, therefore, inheres within socio-culturally propagated predispositions that provide the patterned consistency that makes the inadvertent emergence of a coherent strategy possible. By demonstrating how strategy is immanent in socio-culturally propagated practices, the SIP perspective overcomes the troublesome micro/macro distinction implied in SP and SAP research. It also advances our understanding of how strategy emergence impacts organizational outcomes. | |
dc.format.extent | 33 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Human Relations | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | en |
dc.subject | Immanent strategy | en |
dc.subject | Metaphysics | en |
dc.subject | Outcomes | en |
dc.subject | Process | en |
dc.subject | Practice | en |
dc.subject | Strategy emergence | en |
dc.subject | HD28 Management. Industrial Management | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HD28 | en |
dc.title | Strategy-in-practices : a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Management | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Office of the Principal | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720929397 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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