: Andreas Rasche
: The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management
: Physica-Verlag
: 9783790819762
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: CHF 132.70
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: Management
: English
: 345
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At last - a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. This fantastic book uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions researchers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He delves into the internal contradictions 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.
Foreword – Strategic Management in Deconstruction7
Preface – Strategic Management and Paradox9
Contents11
1 Introduction to the Study14
1.1 Underlying Problem and Research Objective14
1.2 This Study and the Philosophy of Science29
1.3 Limitations of the Study – Some Words of Caution34
1.4 Structure of Analysis36
2 Strategic Management as a Field of Study40
2.1 The Concept of Strategy40
2.2 Paradigm Lost? – The Roots of Strategy Research46
2.3 Strategic Realities – Context, Process, and Content66
2.4 Strategy Context, Process, and Content – A Résumé78
3 The Dominant Logics of Strategy Research82
3.1 Where to Look for Dominant Logics?83
3.2 Exploring the Dominant Logics of Strategy Research87
3.3 How Dominant Logics Come into Existence112
3.4 Challenges from Outside the Mainstream127
4 Deconstruction and the (N)either/(N)or 139
4.1 The Meaning(lessness) of Postmodernism139
4.2 Deconstruction in a Nutshell?151
4.3 Deconstruction within Organizational Analysis182
4.4 Strategic Realities as Text187
5 Strategic Realities – The Role of Paradox190
5.1 Strategizing Because of Paradox191
5.2 Strategizing Despite Paradox193
5.3 Strategic Realities Despite and Because of Paradox200
6 The Deconstruction of Strategic Realities203
6.1 Strategy Context – Beyond the Market Given206
6.2 Strategy Process – Beyond the Notion of Feasibility226
6.3 Strategy Content – Beyond Simple Generalizations247
6.4 A Résumé – The Neither/Nor of Strategic Realities275
7 After Derrida – Strategy-as-Practice280
7.1 From Deconstruction to Strategy-as-Practice281
7.2 Social Practices – What s in a Name?283
7.3 Strategy-as-Practice – Towards a Framework285
7.4 Communities of Strategy Formation 291
7.5 Doing Strategy Research After Derrida 295
8 Final Reflections – Retrospect and Prospect297
8.1 Retrospect – Rethinking Strategic Realities298
8.2 Prospect – Fostering Engaged Scholarship303
8.3 But, Beyond... – The End and the Beginning312
Glossary of Terms314
Bibliography318