Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use
构建了一个社会理论框架,解释战略管理文献中递归与适应性实践的共同主题,并提出“使用中的管理实践”概念,为实证研究战略作为实践提供了九个研究问题。
In this article, a social theory framework is developed to explain the common themes of recursive and adaptive practice underpinning the existing strategic management literature. In practice, there is a coexistent tension between recursive and adaptive forms of strategic action that spans multiple levels from macro-institutional and competitive contexts to within-firm levels of analysis to individual cognition. This tension may be better understood by examining how management practices are used to put strategy into practice. Such practices span multiple levels of context and are adaptable to their circumstances of use, serving to highlight both general characteristics and localized idiosyncrasies of strategy as practice. The article develops the concept of management practices-in-use into a research agenda and nine broad research questions that may be used to investigate empirically strategy as practice.