Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games: Toward a Radical Constructivist Process Perspective (Schriften zur Unternehmensentwicklung)

Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’.

Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’.

Contents

• Strategy Tools
• Process Philosophy
• Philosophy of Management
• Process Organization Studies

Target Groups

• Researchers in the fields of Philosophy of Management and Process Organization Studies
• Professionals widening their intellectual scope

The Author
Dr. Dragan Djurić conducted his doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Max J. Ringlstetter, Professor of Business Administration, Organization Theory, and HRM at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.