If you aren’t talking about practices, don’t call it a practice-based view: Rejoinder to Bromiley and Rau in Strategic Organization

Strategic Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 270-274

  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 implementation; strategy practitioners; strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980050682     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127016655998     Document Type: Article

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