The Practice Turn and the Social Movement of Strategy as Practice: Is it Completed This Turn?
Keywords:
, Strategy as Practice, Social Movement, Practice Turn, Contemporary Social Theories, Institutional Link.Abstract
In 2006, Richard Whittington, the main author of the research stream named Strategy as Practice published the paper Completing the Practice Turn in Strategy Research. In that work it was introduced an analysis framework that, purposely, would complete the turn of the practice in this research area considering different practice levels (micro and macro). However, critics were done and are still been done to the studies realized about this perspective, what shows the need to evaluate how it is going the Practice Turn in the strategy studies. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to analyze the practice turn in strategy studies, as about the main characteristics as about the finalization of this cycle considering that approach such as a social movement. Regarding the method, it was chosen the not reactive research of existent documents (secondary data) (NEUMAN, 1997). From such method it were selected the main journals of the Administration and Strategy area according the Journal Citation Reports, looking for those with the most impact factor. Whith a sample containing 59 papers, the social movement of the Strategy as Practice was analyzed according the three moments suggested by Hambrick and Chen (2009): (i) differentiation; (ii) mobilization; e (iii) legitimacy construction. The results allow concluding: (i) the practice turn in strategy field consists to relate the corporeity of the social actors, their goals and ways to use it, their knowledge, skills, emotion states and motivations related to practice; (ii) this turn is concentrated, in relational terms, in the researchers R. Whittington and P. Jarzabkowski, with works, predominantly, oriented and arrested to the old vocabulary of the regulation sociology; (iii) regarding the achievement or completing of the turn practice, as it was allegedly placed by Whittington (2006), it is possible to conclude that the practice turn in strategy studies are not completed, in that it examines the practices relatively in an organizational vacuum. Soon, it is necessary to recuperate the organization in the practice study, redefining the term “organization” itself in this social movement.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Once the papers have been approved, the authors will assign their copyrights to this Journal. The Copyright Assignment Conditions include:
1. The Mackenzie Administration Journal holds the rights to all the papers published therein through assignment of copyright.
2. The author retains moral rights to the paper, including the right to identify the author whenever the article is published.
3. As of July 1, 2015 RAM adopted the CC-BY license standard (Creative Commons– BY). Authors are allowed to copy, distribute, display, transmit and adapt articles. Authors must attribute to RAM explicitly and clearly an article’s original publication (with reference to the journal’s name, edition, year and pages in which the article was originally published), yet without suggesting that RAM endorses the author or its use of the article. Contents are released by means of the CC-BY license to fully inter-operate with a variety of different systems and services, including for commercial purposes. In case of an article’s reuse or distribution, authors must make the article’s licensing terms clear to third parties. CC-BY criteria follow open access policies by major OA (Open Access) publishers and journals, such as PLoS, eLife, Biomed Central and Hindawi, among others.
4. When formally requested by the author, this Journal may allow the paper to be published as a chapter or part of a book. The only requirement is that prior publication in this Journal (Journal name, issue, year and pages) must be clearly and explicitly shown as a reference.
