action and action taking. Four main perspectives of administration and management are currently influential for further … knowledge building as well as for practice-oriented approaches: the art and craft of handling strategic actors and power …

-procedural researches offered alternatives to conventional strategy, they do not really fit to a critical theory of strategic management …. Building on a literature review in critical management studies and strategy, our article calls for a critical research agenda … in strategic management, that goes beyond the post-rational perspective in the field. …

possibilities of collaboration. From one side, ORA are perceived by suppliers as a clear proof of the buyer’s power and opportunism … inter-firm trust when using ORA: the management of ORA, the integration of qualitative criteria and the elimination of …

Power can be used as a way to create fruitful opportunities for scientific agendas. Power also offers an analytical … tool to make sense of social phenomena. This does not imply that power theory building only may derive heuristic benefits …

firm are proposed: the lord-buyer wants to exert its power, the partner-buyer aims at assuring goal congruence with its …

process or on behaviour), depending on the power - dependence relationship with its supplier. Moreover, the development of …

organization, namely a process of sensemaking, the support of a structure of power parallel to the official one, and a process of …