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 …

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 …

to further explore the ‘third generation’ of Foucauldian studies which would study management practices as morals …

liberate at the same time. Michel Foucault’s approach of power in organization is used to determine the distinctive …’s orders) or norms (often tacit meta-rules). We found evidence of transgression practices known by everyone (management and …

critical approach and 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 …

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