This is a wiki site for the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Strategy Practice Interest Group. Scroll down to read more about this wiki or how to use it. If you already know what you want, just choose from the sidebar menu on the right.
The Strategy Practice Interest Group unites both scholars interested in practice research and practitioners. The group views strategy as something that people do and not that organizations have. It focuses on the doing of strategy. It is interested in all the activities, methods and tools that are employed in the doing of strategy and how the ‘strategy work’ is linked to organizational outcomes and to the broader institutional and societal environment strategy practitioners operate in.
Some of the research questions of interest to the Strategy Practice group include:
- What does ‘strategy work’ involve? Who is involved in the doing of strategy?
- What impact do strategizing activities have on firm performance?
- How do individual strategists and their teams shape strategy and firm performance? What is their role in the development and leverage of firm’s resources, capabilities and processes?
- What is the role of discourse, cognition and emotion in the doing of strategy? How do the discursive, cognitive and emotional aspects of strategists’ actions influence firm outcomes?
- What are the skills required to perform strategy work and how are these skills acquired?
- What are the micro foundations of the activities involved in the doing of strategy?
- How are strategic problems identified and conceptualized?
- What tools do strategy practitioners employ and with what effect?
- How is the communication of strategy taking place within and across organizations? How are the outcomes of this communication consumed by strategists and non-strategists?
- How do external strategy stakeholders (such as consultants, government agencies, professional societies) influence strategy practice?
- How does the macro environment impact on the doing of strategy and vice versa?
- What are the implications of conceptualizing strategy as a situated social activity?
- How can theorizing inform managerial practice? How can insights from practitioners help scholars develop more relevant theories? How can engaged scholarship help extend strategy theory?
- How can we better leverage on a multi-disciplinary approach to inform and advance the strategy practice agenda?
- How can we conceptualize and study strategy as a profession? What is the contribution of strategy as a profession to society and how can this contribution be improved?
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. In other words, you are able to share information here. Wiki is often described as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". The Strategy Practice wiki is a website where everybody at the Strategic Management Society's Strategy Practice Interest Group can collaboratively edit and share information that they find important for the future of the practice of strategy. Simply, this is an electronic bulletin board for our community (ABCs: academics/researchers, business managers/practitioners and consultants). The comments, questions, answers and information that you share in this wiki are used to create a shared vision of our members and keep the discussion going in the months between the SMS annual conferences.
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Adding documents and links
1. Before uploading a document, please name the document with something that represents the content of it, then add the date of the last update of the document and also your initials. For example Phoenix230309ss (which means that this is a document about our Phoenix recovery workshop that was updated on March 23, 2009 and uploaded by Sari).
2. To upload the document on a wiki page first go to the page on EDIT mode. Then on the right hands side go to Insert links. Click on grey background "Images and files". Click on "Upload files". You will see your files on your computer in a pop up screen. Choose the right file. Click "open" and the file will appear on the wiki "Images and files" screen on the right hand side as the first file. Your file is now uploaded to the wiki.
3. To make a link to that file just position your cursor to the place where you want the link to the file be and click on the file name on the right hand side. Inserting any other type of links goes just by copy paste. If you add a link, please put in parenthesis next to the link the date and your initials ( e.g. (08April09ss)).
4. To delete a file you go to "pages and file" in the upper right corner- then you come to the place where all the files are stored and there you can rename or delete files.
Word of caution: for some reason it is really easy to delete text when inserting links to files. The text after the link easily is deleted. If that happens, no problem, just go to an earlier version of the page (click on "page history" on the top) and insert the link again with better luck.
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