Tsoukas, Haridimos (2018) Praxis, character, and competence : from a behavioral to a communitarian view of the firm. In: Augier, Mie and Fang, Christina and Rindova, Violina P., (eds.) Behavioral Strategy in Perspective. Emerald Publishing Ltd., pp. 181-194. ISBN 9781787563483

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Abstract

I seek to further develop the behavioral approach to strategic management through sketching a communitarian view of the firm. Specifically, I argue that the latter, informed by a practice-based onto-epistemology, especially a neo-Aristotelian understanding of praxis, and the related institutional work of Selznick, suggests the centrality of value commitments firms make, which, through habituation, are integrated to form organizational character. The latter provides firms with certain core competences – a distinctive style with which practitioners enact their tasks. Organizational character helps confront the self-command problem firms face. However, the behavioral consistency that character provides may lead to rigidities when competitive circumstances change, while organizational character, through praxis, may take on features that prevent the leadership of a firm from realizing the novelty of the circumstances in order to modify existing core competences and the accompanying organizational character dispositions.

Item Type:	Book Item
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Ltd.
ISBN:	9781787563483
Book Title:	Behavioral Strategy in Perspective
Editor:	Augier, Mie and Fang, Christina and Rindova, Violina P.
Official Date:	21 September 2018
Dates:	Date Event 21 September 2018 Published
Volume:	39
Page Range:	pp. 181-194
DOI:	10.1108/S0742-332220180000039013
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Related URLs:	Publisher Other

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