Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the rise and institutionalization of the discourse of strategic management. It seeks to advance an agenda for studying strategy from a sociologically informed perspective. Moreover, it aims to make a case for a critically informed, interdisciplinary approach to studying strategy.
The paper provides an overview to studying strategy critically. It is a theoretically informed paper.
The findings can be summarised as: first, strategy emerged as a major discipline in the 1970s; second, as a body of knowledge strategy has remained close to its industrial economics origins; and third, an agenda for the sociological study of strategy revolving around concerns of performativity and power is outlined.
The paper offers a sociologically informed account of strategy.
The paper provides an overview to studying strategy critically. It is a theoretically informed paper.
The findings can be summarised as: first, strategy emerged as a major discipline in the 1970s; second, as a body of knowledge strategy has remained close to its industrial economics origins; and third, an agenda for the sociological study of strategy revolving around concerns of performativity and power is outlined.
The paper offers a sociologically informed account of strategy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 573 - 594 |
| Journal | Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |