Book contents
- Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
- Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction: What Is Strategy as Practice?
- Part I Ontological and Epistemological Questions
- Part II Theoretical Resources: Social Theory
- Chapter 6 Structuration Theory: Giddens and Beyond
- Chapter 7 An Activity Theory Approach to Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 8 A Bourdieusian Perspective on Strategizing
- Chapter 9 A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Strategizing
- Chapter 10 A Foucauldian Perspective on Strategic Practice: Strategy as the Art of (Un)folding
- Chapter 11 A Narrativity Approach to Strategy as Practice: Strategy-Making from Texts and Narratives
- Chapter 12 Actor–Network Theory and Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 13 A Dramaturgical Framework for Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 14 Schatzki’s Practice Theory and Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 15 An Economies-of-Worth Perspective on Strategy as Practice: Dealing with Strategic Pluralism through Legitimation, Localization and Materialization
- Chapter 16 Strategy as a Performative Practice: A Self-Referential, Knowledge-Based Perspective
- Part III Theoretical Resources: Organization and Management Theories
- Part IV Methodological Resources
- Part V Substantive Topic Areas
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - An Activity Theory Approach to Strategy as Practice
from Part II - Theoretical Resources: Social Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2025
Book contents
- Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
- Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction: What Is Strategy as Practice?
- Part I Ontological and Epistemological Questions
- Part II Theoretical Resources: Social Theory
- Chapter 6 Structuration Theory: Giddens and Beyond
- Chapter 7 An Activity Theory Approach to Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 8 A Bourdieusian Perspective on Strategizing
- Chapter 9 A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Strategizing
- Chapter 10 A Foucauldian Perspective on Strategic Practice: Strategy as the Art of (Un)folding
- Chapter 11 A Narrativity Approach to Strategy as Practice: Strategy-Making from Texts and Narratives
- Chapter 12 Actor–Network Theory and Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 13 A Dramaturgical Framework for Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 14 Schatzki’s Practice Theory and Strategy as Practice
- Chapter 15 An Economies-of-Worth Perspective on Strategy as Practice: Dealing with Strategic Pluralism through Legitimation, Localization and Materialization
- Chapter 16 Strategy as a Performative Practice: A Self-Referential, Knowledge-Based Perspective
- Part III Theoretical Resources: Organization and Management Theories
- Part IV Methodological Resources
- Part V Substantive Topic Areas
- Index
- References
Summary
Carola Wolf and Paula Jarzabkowski focus on activity theory as an approach for studying strategy as practice. The origins of activity theory can be found in Lev Vygotsky’s seminal work, but it has been developed and used in a variety of ways, including foundational work in strategy as practice. Wolf and Jarzabkowski offer an overview of activity theory and propose an organizing framework for understanding how activity theory has been used in strategy as practice research: activity-in-practice, activity as part of practice, or activity-as-practice. They next explain the key theoretical elements of activity theory, which leads them to focus on how activity can be conceptualized as a product of activity systems, including the actors, the community that the actors interact with and the symbolic and material tools that mediate between actors, their community and their pursuit of activity. In this discussion, they not only highlight existing contributions but explain how future research could go much further using an activity theory approach.
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