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Chapter 39 - Temporality in Strategy as Practice

from Part V - Substantive Topic Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2025

By
Nina Granqvist  and
Ari Kuismin
Edited by
Damon Golsorkhi ,
Linda Rouleau ,
David Seidl  and
Eero Vaara
Damon Golsorkhi
Affiliation:
emlyon Business School
Linda Rouleau
Affiliation:
HEC Montréal
David Seidl
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Eero Vaara
Affiliation:
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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Summary

Nina Granqvist and Ari Kuismin focus on temporality in strategy as practice research. They offer an overview of prior research on time-related topics and then move on to develop an understanding of the ways in which strategy as practice scholars can approach temporality. This can involve process approaches that concentrate on temporally situated strategic activity over time, practice-based approaches that focus on time as a key element in the way strategy is worked on, and narrative approaches that deal with how pasts and futures are discursively constructed. They conclude with an agenda for future research on the role of temporality in strategizing.

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strategy as practicepractice approachtemporalityprocess approachnarrative approach
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Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice , pp. 713 - 728
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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