Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Now in its third edition, this Handbook is essential for students and researchers in Strategic Management and Organizational Theory and Behaviour. The Strategy as Practice approach moves away from the disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, towards the study of strategizing as an activity. Strategy is understood as something people do rather than something a firm has. This perspective explores how strategizing contributes to an organizations' daily operations at all levels. Through detailed empirical studies of the everyday activities and practice of people engaged in strategizing, the Handbook investigates who strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences of their actions are. Featuring new authors and additional or fundamentally updated and revised chapters, this edition provides a state-of-the-art overview of recent reflections and works in this rapidly growing stream of strategic management, whilst also presenting a research agenda for the next decade.

• The go-to source for an authoritative and comprehensive overview of research in the Strategy as Practice field
• Synthesis of an important stream of strategy research: brings together developments in the field of Strategy as Practice in one volume, and fully updated since the publication of the second edition in 2015
• Provides an in-depth, multidimensional (epistemological, theoretical and methodological) discussion of the consequences of a practice approach to strategy
• Points out the central research directions in Strategy as Practice and provides links to other important strands of research in organization and management studies, such as institutional theory, behavioral strategy and routines literature, extreme contexts of organizing and feminist studies - particularly helpful to researchers who are new to the field