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- Introduction
- Presentation outline
- Domain of strategy as practice research
- "Doing" strategy
- Strategy as practice: a valuable area
- Epistemological choices and research strategies
- The post-positivist view
- Post-positivist view: fast strategic decision-making
- Post-positivist view: strategy workshops
- The interpretive approach
- The interpretive view: sensemaking & sensegiving
- The interpretive view: identity ambiguity & change
- A strong practice ontology
- New technology as an occasion for structuring
- The practice turn: an example
- Sampling & research design: units of analysis
- Sampling & research design: the strategic episode
- Sampling & research design: unit boundaries
- Three sampling principles
- An exemplary comparative design
- Access, data collection & ethics
- Access-proximity to phenomenon & quality of data
- Data sources: the big 3 of qualitative research
- Capturing strategy as practice: some alternatives
- Access, data collection & ethics: research limits
- Analysis & theorizing: postpositivist approach
- Analysis & theorizing: an interpretive approach
- Analysis & theorizing: data structure
- Analysis & theorizing: org. identity change
- Analysis & theorizing: theory-based approaches
- Temporal bracketing: tracing recursive cycles
- Rouleau 2005: deep dive strategy incidents
- Concluding observations
- 4 open questions about methods
- Thank you
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Topics Covered
- The domain of “strategy as practice” research
- Approaching strategy as practice (Epistemological choices and research strategies)
- Bounding strategy as practice (Sampling and research design)
- Capturing strategy as practice (Access, data collection and ethics)
- Understanding strategy as practice (Analysis and theorizing)
Talk Citation
Langley, A. (2014, February 5). Research methodology for strategy as practice [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved August 31, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/YXIY5664.Export Citation (RIS)
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0:00
Hello my name is Ann Langley I'm a professor in Management and I hold
the Canada Research Chair in
Strategic Management and Pluralistic Settings at HEC Montreal.
The chair is dedicated to the study of
strategic management processes in complex organizations.
This talk will be about the research methodology for
strategy as practice research with
a particular emphasis on providing a general overview of different kinds of
methodological approaches. There are very useful
but more narrowly focused talks on methods in the strategy as practice collection,
for example Curtis LeBaron's talk on video ethnography and
Eero Vaara's talk on discursive methods that
I recommend as complementary to the present talk.
You'll also find hints about methods in some of the other talks on specific phenomena.
0:50
Here's the outline of my talk today.
First, I will present my understanding of the overall domain of
'strategy as practice' research to set the scene for what follows.
I will then divide my discussion of methods into four sections that approximately
reflect the sequence of decisions that need to be
made in designing and executing a study.
We'll move from epistemological choices and research strategies to sampling and
research design access data collection and ethics and finally to analysis and theorizing.
My talk is very much inspired by a book I co-authored with Gerry Johnson,
Leif Melin, and Richard Whittington.
In that book, we drew on a series of exemplar articles to illustrate
our points about theory and method and I will follow the same approach here.
If you wish for more information on what I will
discuss then I recommend reading the book.
Of course, it is hard to cover all aspects of
research methodology in a one-hour or so talk,
so it would be important for you to explore further.
I hope however to give you the flavor of
some different perspectives on doing research in the area of strategy as practice.