Strategy-as-Practice standing working group at EGOS 2009: Passion for
Creativity and Innovation
INDIVIDUALITY IN STRATEGIZING ACTIVITY AND PRACTICE: FORMULATORS,
IMPLEMENTERS, INNOVATORS
Convenors:
Saku Mantere, Hanken School of Business
Julia Balogun, Lancaster University Management School
Paula Jarzabkowski, Aston Business School
Guest panelist: Jean Bartunek, Carroll School of Management at Boston College
Short papers (3000 words maximum) must be submitted via the EGOS
website (full webpage address below) by January 11th, 2009. The
submission system is already open.
Subtheme address:
http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egosnet/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1227178922337&subtheme_id=1227251866473
We invite papers from a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches that address the individual in strategizing activity and
practice. Theoretical and, in particular, empirical papers are
invited. Authors might consider, but are not restricted to the
following themes:
? Who are the strategists? We invite a range of approaches to defining
which individuals may be considered strategic actors
? What resources do individuals draw upon to construct themselves as
strategic actors and / or to have strategic effects? For example, what
discourses or other multi-modal forms of interaction, such as
positioning, gesture and movement enable individuals to construct
themselves as strategic actors?
? How do individuals build their identities as strategic actors,
regardless of their formal roles?
? What roles do individuals assign themselves within strategy work and
how does this enable or constrain their ability to contribute to that
work?
? How do individuals express passion, desire and emotion in the doing
of strategy and with what implications for themselves as strategic
actors or for the strategizing activities in which they are engaged?
? What work do strategists do and, in particular, how does strategy
work vary across different strategists?
? How do individuals learn to be strategists?
? What factors enable and suppress individuality and dialogue in
strategy work and discourse?
? What research methods enable us to better access and understand the
individual as a strategic actor?
Best regards, and happy holidays!
Saku Mantere