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Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use

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Jarzabkowski, Paula·2004·Organization Studies
DOI 10.1177/0170840604040675
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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.

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Jarzabkowski, P.
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Organization Studies
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SAGE Publications
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2004-05
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25
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529-560
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