On the risk of studying practices in isolation: Linking what, who, and how in strategy research

Strategic Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 248-259

  Jarzabkowski, Paula ^a   Kaplan, Sarah ^b   Seidl, David ^c   Whittington, Richard ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

practice perspective; strategy as practice; strategy formulation; strategy practitioners

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979966739     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127015604125     Document Type: Article

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