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Strategy as text and discursive practice : a genre-based approach to strategizing in city administration

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  • Eero Vaara

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Virpi Sorsa
  • Pekka Palli

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Despite the acknowledged importance of strategic planning in business and other organizations, there are few studies focusing on strategy texts and the related processes of their production and consumption. In this article, we attempt to partially fill this research gap by examining the institutionalized aspects of strategy discourse: what strategy is as genre. Combining textual analysis and analysis of conversation, the article focuses on the official strategy of the City of Lahti in Finland. Our analysis shows how specific communicative purposes and lexico-grammatical features characterize the genre of strategy and how the actual negotiations over strategy text involve particular kinds of intersubjectivity and intertextuality.

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  • Eero Vaara & Virpi Sorsa & Pekka Palli, 2009. "Strategy as text and discursive practice : a genre-based approach to strategizing in city administration," Post-Print hal-02313255, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02313255
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    1. Marion Varlet & Florence Allard-Poesi, 2015. "Les Conditions de Performativité du Discours Stratégique Analyses et apports d'Austin, Searle, Butler et Callon," Post-Print hal-01490627, HAL.
    2. Christof Brandtner & Markus A Höllerer & Renate E Meyer & Martin Kornberger, 2017. "Enacting governance through strategy: A comparative study of governance configurations in Sydney and Vienna," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(5), pages 1075-1091, April.
    3. Lehtinen, Esa & Pälli, Pekka, 2011. "Conversational use of genres in managerial meetings," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 287-296, September.
    4. Linden, Erik, 2021. "Pandemics and environmental shocks: What aviation managers should learn from COVID-19 for long-term planning," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    5. Höglund, Linda & Svärdsten, Fredrik, 2018. "Strategy work in the public sector—A balancing act of competing discourses," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 225-232.
    6. Bourgoin, Alaric & Marchessaux, François & Bencherki, Nicolas, 2018. "We need to talk about strategy: How to conduct effective strategic dialogue," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 61(4), pages 587-597.

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