{"title":"Reinstating the radical: Trajectory, debates, and proposals for strategy as practice","authors":"Qian Li , Paula Jarzabkowski","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Strategy as practice (SAP) has developed from a relatively radical idea emphasising situated and knowledgeable strategy practices to a well-recognised field explaining a wide range of strategy activities and practices. Despite this remarkable trajectory, SAP continues to be shaped by ongoing onto-epistemological debates. This essay follows the call to embrace SAP’s early roots in social practices and proposes reinstating the radical in SAP research. We briefly review SAP’s trajectory, showing how advocates and critics have co-constructed the field as it is today. Based on this review, we identify two ongoing debates of intentionality and the macro–micro divide and highlight the onto-epistemological nature of these debates and the methodological challenges to move beyond the debates. Finally, we propose three research ‘bridges’ across these debates<!--> <!-->to further advance<!--> <!-->the radical SAP agenda and its growth as a vibrant intellectual community open to a wide range of research and phenomena as part of the field’s continuous process of becoming.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115055"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Business Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296324005599","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Strategy as practice (SAP) has developed from a relatively radical idea emphasising situated and knowledgeable strategy practices to a well-recognised field explaining a wide range of strategy activities and practices. Despite this remarkable trajectory, SAP continues to be shaped by ongoing onto-epistemological debates. This essay follows the call to embrace SAP’s early roots in social practices and proposes reinstating the radical in SAP research. We briefly review SAP’s trajectory, showing how advocates and critics have co-constructed the field as it is today. Based on this review, we identify two ongoing debates of intentionality and the macro–micro divide and highlight the onto-epistemological nature of these debates and the methodological challenges to move beyond the debates. Finally, we propose three research ‘bridges’ across these debates to further advance the radical SAP agenda and its growth as a vibrant intellectual community open to a wide range of research and phenomena as part of the field’s continuous process of becoming.
作为实践的战略(SAP)已经从一个相对激进的理念发展成为一个广受认可的领域,解释了广泛的战略活动和实践。尽管走过了这一非凡的轨迹,但 "作为实践的战略 "仍被持续不断的 "作为认识论 "的争论所左右。这篇文章呼吁人们拥抱 SAP 早期的社会实践根源,并建议在 SAP 研究中重塑激进主义。我们简要回顾了 SAP 的发展轨迹,展示了倡导者和批评者是如何共同构建了这一领域的今天。在此基础上,我们确定了意向性和宏观与微观之分这两个正在进行的争论,并强调了这些争论的认识论性质以及超越争论所面临的方法论挑战。最后,我们提出了跨越这些争论的三条研究 "桥梁",以进一步推进激进SAP议程,并使其成长为一个充满活力的知识界,向广泛的研究和现象开放,成为该领域持续发展过程的一部分。
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