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Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. It uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions reseachers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He exposes the paradoxes that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems. The analysis is completed by a discussion of theoretical and practical implications which highlight the need to research strategy not as something an organization has, but as something an organization does. Such a 'practice perspective' gives reference to the paradoxical ground that strategic management rests on and enriches scholars' ability to reflect on practitioners' tasks while 'doing' strategy in organizations.
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"The book is well structured and its argument flows logically and coherently. … The book therefore is structured quite conventionally to aid a wide range of readership. … Overall, this book is a novel, refreshing and important contribution to the generally unreflective and programmatic approach widespread in strategy research. It is a scholarly text characterized by theoretical reflection of the highest quality that is notably missing in much of management academia in general." (Andreas Rasche, Organization Studies, Vol. 29, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management
Authors: Andreas Rasche
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1976-2
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1975-5Published: 23 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-2536-7Published: 21 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1976-2Published: 25 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 345
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business and Management, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Management