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The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management

By: Rasche, Andreas [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2008.Description: XIV, 345 p. 36 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783790819762.Subject(s): Business | Management science | Management | Philosophy and social sciences | Business and Management | Business and Management, general | Philosophy of the Social Sciences | ManagementDDC classification: 650 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
to the Study -- Strategic Management as a Field of Study -- The Dominant Logics of Strategy Research -- Deconstruction and the ‘(N)either/(N)or’ -- Strategic Realities — The Role of Paradox -- The Deconstruction of Strategic Realities -- ‘After Derrida’ — Strategy-as-Practice -- Final Reflections — Retrospect and Prospect.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book offers a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. It uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions reseachers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He exposes the paradoxes that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems. The analysis is completed by a discussion of theoretical and practical implications which highlight the need to research strategy not as something an organization has, but as something an organization does. Such a 'practice perspective' gives reference to the paradoxical ground that strategic management rests on and enriches scholars' ability to reflect on practitioners' tasks while 'doing' strategy in organizations.
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to the Study -- Strategic Management as a Field of Study -- The Dominant Logics of Strategy Research -- Deconstruction and the ‘(N)either/(N)or’ -- Strategic Realities — The Role of Paradox -- The Deconstruction of Strategic Realities -- ‘After Derrida’ — Strategy-as-Practice -- Final Reflections — Retrospect and Prospect.

This book offers a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. It uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions reseachers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He exposes the paradoxes that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems. The analysis is completed by a discussion of theoretical and practical implications which highlight the need to research strategy not as something an organization has, but as something an organization does. Such a 'practice perspective' gives reference to the paradoxical ground that strategic management rests on and enriches scholars' ability to reflect on practitioners' tasks while 'doing' strategy in organizations.

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