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Re‐framing strategy: power, politics and accounting

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  • Chris Carter
  • Stewart Clegg
  • Martin Kornberger

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Purpose - This paper aims to analyse the rise and institutionalization of the discourse of strategic management. It seeks to advance an agenda for studying strategy from a sociologically informed perspective. Moreover, it aims to make a case for a critically informed, interdisciplinary approach to studying strategy. Design/methodology/approach - The paper provides an overview to studying strategy critically. It is a theoretically informed paper. Findings - The findings can be summarised as: first, strategy emerged as a major discipline in the 1970s; second, as a body of knowledge strategy has remained close to its industrial economics origins; and third, an agenda for the sociological study of strategy revolving around concerns of performativity and power is outlined. Originality/value - The paper offers a sociologically informed account of strategy.

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  • Chris Carter & Stewart Clegg & Martin Kornberger, 2010. "Re‐framing strategy: power, politics and accounting," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 23(5), pages 573-594, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aaajpp:v:23:y:2010:i:5:p:573-594
    DOI: 10.1108/09513571011054891
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