Early strategy scholars have pointed to the importance of reflecting on moral issues within the scope of strategic management. Although strategy content and context have been discussed in relation to ethical reflection, the third aspect, strategy process, has found little or no attention with...

This chapter contrasts two major epistemological alternatives for Strategy as Practice (SAP) research. On the one hand, the building worldview leads to a detached, spectator’s apprehension of social situations which privileges a ‘knowledge about’ typically characterized by episteme...

This book offers a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. It uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions reseachers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic...