Diese Arbeit untersucht mit Hilfe von vier Fallbeispielen, wie Managementberater Unternehmen verändern können. Den theoretischen Hintergrund der Arbeit bildet der Practice Turn in der Sozialtheorie bzw. der Strategy-As-Practice Ansatz in der Managementwissenschaft. Vor diesem werden sowohl...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remain considerable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Strategy workshops represent one obvious and explicit research site since organizations often use such events as a...

Über die Zukunft wissen wir nichts. Keynes' Diktum gilt weiterhin, obschon wir vielfältigst prognostizieren. Dabei aber rekurrieren wir systematisch und statistisch auf alte Datenmuster und Erinnerungen. Erfahrungen bilden die Basis der Projektionen auf die Zukunft. Die Qualität der...

Erleben wir in der Pandemie eine veritable Neuordnung der Zeit? Erlaubt die Krise gar eine Abkehr vom kapitalistischen Zeitregime? Der Beitrag betrachtet Covid-19 und die einhergehenden staatlichen Maßnahmen aus einer zeit- und wirtschaftssoziologischen Perspektive. Er macht deutlich, dass sich...

What can the idea of eternal return tell us about contemporary financial society? In this essay I follow Nietzsche by deploying it as an existential provocation, linking the prospect of endless recurrence to the daily routines of the asset economy. This entails a departure from simple notions of...

The paper's purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly rely on planning and organising activities when...

The paper offers new insights into how concurrent combinations of different strategic planning participants is related to the usage of various management tools in the company. It shares the light to two areas with little empirical studies - concurrent involvement of strategic planning...

Formulating and implementing a new strategy may be a challenging task, especially if it alters the way in which a company has operated and positioned itself before. This may be particularly true for companies within the forest industry, like manufacturers of paper packaging products, pursuing...

In this paper, we study how entrepreneurial and strategic processes develop in a public-sector organisation through a theoretical lens of Strategic Entrepreneurship (SE). Previous literature on SE practices identified a number of organisational aspects-such as organisational culture, structure,...