Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice (Hardcover)

Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel

ISBN 10: 1035315955 / ISBN 13: 9781035315956

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, 2025

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Hardcover. This comprehensive Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice provides an entry point for exploring the different dimensions of the strategy-as-practice (SAP) perspective on strategy. This perspective implies a fundamental shift in our understanding of strategy treating strategy as something people do rather than something that firms have.Designed both for readers new to and familiar with SAP, the Encyclopedia features 186 entries written by experts in the field. The entries are structured into six carefully curated sections, which outline the relevant theories, concepts, methods, and phenomena, discuss the relation to adjacent research approaches and map the global community infrastructure supporting SAP-related research, teaching and practice.With its overview of SAP research and its scholarly network, this Encyclopedia serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers in business and management, organization studies, strategic management, and organizational sociology. Practitioners and professionals will also find practical insights grounded in the latest theoretical developments.Key Features:Includes 186 entries written by experts in the field providing a comprehensive overview of strategy-as-practice research and its communityOffers in-depth insights into the relevant theories, theorists and concepts, as well as the relations to adjacent research approaches such as Attention Based View, Leadership as Practice, Resource Based View and Strategic LeadershipExplores emergent areas of research, including new SAP-related phenomena such as Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Gender, Sustainability, and Open Strategy The Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive overview of strategy-as-practice research and the scholarly community behind it. Covering essential theoretical resources, methods, phenomena and community infrastructures, it provides inspiration for conducting strategy-as-practice research and for engaging meaningfully with its vibrant global community. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035315955
• ISBN 13: 9781035315956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This comprehensive Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice provides an entry point for exploring the different dimensions of the strategy-as-practice (SAP) perspective on strategy. This perspective implies a fundamental shift in our understanding of strategy – treating strategy as something people do rather than something that firms have.

Designed both for readers new to and familiar with SAP, the Encyclopedia features 186 entries written by experts in the field. The entries are structured into six carefully curated sections, which outline the relevant theories, concepts, methods, and phenomena, discuss the relation to adjacent research approaches and map the global community infrastructure supporting SAP-related research, teaching and practice.

With its overview of SAP research and its scholarly network, this Encyclopedia serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers in business and management, organization studies, strategic management, and organizational sociology. Practitioners and professionals will also find practical insights grounded in the latest theoretical developments.

Key Features:

• Includes 186 entries written by experts in the field providing a comprehensive overview of strategy-as-practice research and its community
• Offers in-depth insights into the relevant theories, theorists and concepts, as well as the relations to adjacent research approaches such as Attention Based View, Leadership as Practice, Resource Based View and Strategic Leadership
• Explores emergent areas of research, including new SAP-related phenomena such as Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Gender, Sustainability, and Open Strategy

About the Author

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