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  • Chapter 22 - A Social-Symbolic Work Perspective on Strategy as Practice: The Objects of Strategy Work

  • from Part III - Theoretical Resources: Organization and Management Theories
  • Edited by Damon Golsorkhi, emlyon Business School, Linda Rouleau, HEC Montréal, David Seidl, Universität Zürich, Eero Vaara, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
    Published online:
    11 March 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 401-416

  • Summary

    Tyson Rallens, Tom Lawrence and Nelson Phillips adopt a social-symbolic perspective on strategy work. Thereby, they offer a sorely needed analysis of what strategy work consists of. More specifically, the authors use the social-symbolic approach to illuminate the ‘objects’ that strategy practitioners work on. They identify three types of objects: strategy objects, strategic objects and strategists (as objects). They also explain how this work amounts to programmes of action and how objects of strategy work are embedded in ecologies of social-symbolic objects. They conclude by discussing how this approach can benefit future strategy as practice research and how such work can add to research on social-symbolic work more generally.