Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking, and Power

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-201

  Balogun, Julia ^a   Jacobs, Claus ^b   Jarzabkowski, Paula ^c,d   Mantere, Saku ^e   Vaara, Eero ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^f EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Discourse; Power; Sensemaking; Sociomateriality; Strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892956791     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12059     Document Type: Article

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