Strategy tools‐in‐use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice
针对战略工具可能无用或有害的批评，本文从社会学视角研究战略制定者如何实际使用工具，提出一个框架分析工具特性与使用者能动性的互动，并指出使用结果对组织、工具和个人的多种影响。
In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by strategy makers. In conceptualizing strategy tools as tools‐in‐use, we offer a framework for examining the ways that the affordances of strategy tools and the agency of strategy makers interact to shape how and when tools are selected and applied. Further, rather than evaluating the correct or incorrect use of tools, we highlight the variety of outcomes that result, not just for organizations but also for the tools and the individuals who use them. We illustrate this framework with a vignette and propose an agenda and methodological approaches for further scholarship on the use of strategy tools . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.