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Strategy rhetoric in city management: How the presumptions of classic strategic management live on?

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  • Eriksson, Päivi
  • Lehtimäki, Hanna

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This article focuses on the cultural and textual (re)production of the taken-for-granted assumptions of orthodox strategic management in city management practice. It is suggested that in order to make sense of the persistence of some of the classic difficulties of strategic management we need to study not only the strategy processes, but also the language practices of the dominant strategy models. By performing a detailed textual analysis of the rhetoric of one particular strategy document, the article shows how strong strategic leadership and hierarchical relationships persist. In addition the analysis illustrates how a paradox called 'participation by command' is produced by combining the classic top-down strategy rhetoric with the new strategy discourse focusing on empowerment, networks and cooperation.

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  • Eriksson, Päivi & Lehtimäki, Hanna, 2001. "Strategy rhetoric in city management: How the presumptions of classic strategic management live on?," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 201-223, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:17:y:2001:i:2:p:201-223
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    Cited by:

    1. Tiina Onkila, 2009. "Corporate Argumentation for Acceptability: Reflections of Environmental Values and Stakeholder Relations in Corporate Environmental Statements," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 87(2), pages 285-298, June.
    2. Brorström, Sara, 2017. "The paradoxes of city strategy practice: Why some issues become strategically important and others do not," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 213-221.

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