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Standing Working Group 5 – Sub-theme 05:

Strategy as Practice – Stability and Change in Strategizing Routines

 

Convenors:

David Seidl
Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich (Germany)
seidl@bwl.uni-muenchen.de

Martha Feldman
Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management, University of California, Irvine (USA)
feldmanm@uci.edu

Ann Langley
HEC Montréal (Canada)
ann.langley@hec.ca

 

Saku Mantere
Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki & Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
saku.mantere@hanken.fi
 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Routines: Emergence, Disruptions, Replication

Chair: Martha Feldman

Convenors
Introduction

Dionysios D. Dionysiou and Haridimos Tsoukas:
How do organizational routines emerge? Process and barriers

Luciana D'Adderio
Testing as the laboratory for strategy: How replication routines are enacted in practice
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Making Sense of Strategy

Chair: Ann Langley

Daved Barry, Stefan Meisiek and Johan Roos
Rich sensemaking in strategy-as-practice: The play of the obvious and the furtive

Robert Chia and Robin Holt
Strategy as wayfinding

João Vieira da Cunha
Representation work: The routines of producing information on strategic performance
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Strategy Formulation and Implementation Routines

Chair: David Seidl

Simon Grand
Routinizing strategy making: The case of adolescent software companies

Alex Wright and Ken Starkey
Ostensibly different: Scenario planning in practice

Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen and Martha Feldman
Implementing strategic goals: doing end-to-end management in practice
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Communication Routines

Chair: Robin Holt

Andreas Paul Spee and Paula Jarzabkowski
Strategy formation as communicative process

Leif Melin, Ethel Brundin and Mattias Nordqvist
Strategic dialogues as an important practice of strategizing

Linda Rouleau and Bertrand Fauré
Performing strategy through budgeting routines and conversations in a large construction company
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Focused Round Table Presentations 1

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Round Table 1: Breaking the routine

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Chair: Haridimos Tsoukas

Ritva Engeström
To break away from prevalent routines of interactive strategizing

Peter Erdélyi and Edgar A. Whitley
A break from the routine: Studying strategizing practices at a small E-commerce retailer with actor-network theory

Mathieu Detchessahar and Benoît Journé
The role of non-routine events in upsetting strategizing routines: Lessons from action-research at the French postal service

Johannes Rüegg-Stürm and Silke Bucher
Strategizing as non-disruptive interrupting

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Round Table 2: Narrative approaches

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Chair: Daved Barry

Henrika Franck-Möller
Otherness, sameness and selfhood – Construction of shared strategic narratives in top-management meetings

Mikko Vesa
Ricoeurian time and narrative in strategizing. Emplotting temporal communal understanding

Christopher Fenton and Ann Langley
Strategy as practice and the narrative turn

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Round Table 3: Networks and stakeholders

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Chair: Patrick Regnér

Anja Mante
Coordinating R&D Practices in international alliances – The role and stabilization dynamics of interorganizational routines

Charlotte Cloutier
Neither friend nor foe: A practice perspective on collaborating with powerful others

Rik Peeters, Mark van Twist and Martijn van der Steen
Managing expectations: strategizing amidst the bureaucratic practice of two Dutch municipalities

Johanna Moisander and Rita Järventie-Thesleff
Organizational and institutional dynamics of strategic corporate branding: A practice perspective

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Round Table 4: Strategy formulation

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Chair: Tomi Laamanen

Joanne Jin Zhang and Charles Baden-Fuller
Searching for opportunities: Guided vs. experiential process

Mark P. Healey and Gerard P. Hodgkinson
Episodes of success and failure: Critical determinants of the effectiveness of scenario planning interventions

Geneviève Musca
Strategizing routines in fast-changing environments: A comparison of meeting routines construction and change across two Internet project teams

Tomi Laamanen, Juha-Antti Lamberg, Arjo Laukia, Johann Peter Murmann an Jari Ojala:
The origins of success: A qualitative meta-analysis

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Round Table 5: Innovation

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Chair: Johan Roos

Lorenzo Bizzi
Patterns of innovation practice in network organizations

Kathrin Sele and Simon Grand
Routinizing innovation: A practice perspective

Alesia Slocum
How middle managers routinely and recursively perceive time in adapting to strategic change: Case study of new technology recipients
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Focused Round Table Presentations 2

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Round Table 6: Sensemaking, cognition

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Chair: Simon Grand

Aldemir Drummond and Maria-Elisa Brandão-Bernardes
What do middle managers have to say about strategy success?

Nathalie Girard
Representing and categorizing individual strategies as practices: A cognitive group-based methodology

Mette Vinther Larsen and Jørgen Gulddahl Rasmussen
Strategizing by routines

Wendy Smith
Cognitive processes of top management teams to explore and exploit simultaneously

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Round Table 7: Between stability and change in strategy practices

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Chair: Johannes Rüegg-Stürm

Nina Katrin Hansen and Willi Küpper
Stability and change in strategizing routines: A practice-theoretical approach to strategic HRM systems

Andreas Rasche and Robert Chia
Strategy practices between stability and change – A genealogical practice theory perspective

Nol Groot
Local strategic developments and executive responsibilities: A complexity approach to change

Jörg Funder
From doctrine to routine – Stability and change within routines and its implication for the formation of strategy

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Round Table 8: Management practice

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Chair: Paula Jarzabkowski

Basak Yakis-Douglas and Richard Whittington
How to sustain strategic issues: Activities for senior managers

Peter Smith, Ljiljana Erakovic and Yvon Dufour
The relationship between strategizing and organising in the routines of governance: an empirical case study involving pluralistic contexts

Kirsi Lainema
Pursuing for a change in top management team strategizing

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Round Table 9: Strategy as practice and the resource-based view

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Chair: Leif Melin

Patrick Regnér and Udo Zander
Strategic management: Social games in an economic frame

Christopher Fredette and Oana Branzei
Socialized microfoundations of capability dynamization

Isabelle Bouty and Carole Drucker Godard:
Strategizing in high velocity environments: A routinized practice
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Paper Presentation

Chair: Saku Mantere

Cécile Belmondo and Frédérique Dejean
Building and adapting strategic practices over time: A comparative analysis of a competitive intelligence service's activities during 16 months


Closing Panel Discussion
Chair: Saku Mantere

Panelists: Paula Jarzabkowski and Curtis LeBaron

 

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