WHERE: <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> 2006, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">GA</st1:state></st1:place>
WHEN: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:00AM - 12:00PM
LOCATION: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:city> Marriott Marquis - International 6 Room.
SPEAKERS
* Gerry Johnson, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Strathclyde</st1:placename> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Ann Langley, HEC <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Montreal</st1:place></st1:city>
DISCUSSANTS
* Julia Balogun, <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Ian Clarke, <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Deborah Dougherty, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Rutgers University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Mark Easterby-Smith, <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Paula Jarzabkowski, <st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Leif Melin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jonkoping International Business School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Patrick Regner, <st1:city w:st="on">Stockholm</st1:city> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">School of Economics</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* David Seidl, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Munich</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
WORKSHOP BACKGROUND
The last four years has witnessed an exciting development in the strategy field predominantly (but not exclusively) based in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, often referred to as Strategy-as-Practice.
The dominant approach in strategy research has come to be a concern for strategies as that which organizations have and the largely ex post reasons for why. We take a different view. Strategy is something that people do. Strategy is an activity. Our concern is therefore to re-focus strategy research quite literally onto what people who manage and develop strategy actually do. (For some background reading on these ideas and their implications see http://www.strategic-management.de/PDW_paper_May06.htm)
This workshop offers an opportunity for interested researchers to learn about this dynamic research agenda which:
* Is concerned with the activities, rather than properties of strategy; in other words, with the dynamism of doing in relation to strategy;
* And the strategic implications and impacts of people's actions.
* Therefore, no longer an exclusive interest in the fate of organisations as wholes, but in the practical performance of the actors involved in the doing of strategy.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
1. History and Background to the Strategy as Practice Agenda - Gerry Johnson
2. Round Table Discussions with discussants: The Need for Strategy-as-Practice
3. Theoretical and Methodological Issues - Gerry Johnson and Ann Langley
4. Round Table Discussions involving the discussants: Doing Research on Strategy-as-Practice
5. Plenary - Q and A with the speakers and discussants
REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED - ALL WELCOME!