In this chapter we focus on participation in open strategy. We examine how the issue of participation has been dealt with in previous strategy literature and elaborate on how research on open strategy can be linked with and advance this body of work. We identify three main views on participation...

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the role of concepts in strategic sensemaking. Based on a longitudinal real‐time study of a city organization, we demonstrate how the concept of 'self‐responsibility' played a crucial role in strategic sensemaking. We develop a theoretical model...

In this editorial, we describe different qualitative methods as genres—distinct approaches with their own internally coherent epistemology, historical roots, and assumptions. Similar to different works of literature, music, or film, a genre emphasizes variety across types of qualitative...