Strategy tools-in-use: A framework for understanding "technologies of rationality" in practice

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 537-558

  Jarzabkowski, Paula ^a   Kaplan, Sarah ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

practice theory; strategy process; strategy tools; strategy as practice; technologies in use

Indexed keywords

PLANNING;

AFFORDANCES; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; PRACTICE THEORIES; STRATEGY AS PRACTICES; STRATEGY PROCESS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84923879783     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2270     Document Type: Article

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