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Dangazele, Nobulali (2020) Preconfigured and peripheral strategic participation : discursivity, materiality, and embodiment. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Preconfigured and peripheral strategic participation: discursivity, materiality, and embodiment
This thesis is located within strategy-as-practice, which is a strand of research within strategy. The study explores how material, embodied, and discursive resources enable or hinder strategic participation in strategy workshops as a site of practice. The research uses a practice-based lens to capture and examine video- and audiorecordings of the strategy workshops of a senior team at FinCo, a bank in South Africa. The study adopts a micro, fine-grained methodological approach to the study of strategic participation. At the time of the research, the bank had just launched their new strategy. The fieldwork was conducted six months after the launch during their “light touch” strategy planning phase. This provided a unique opportunity to observe a series of strategic episodes within the context of away strategy meetings as the site of practice.
Through the inductive analysis of data collected through observations primarily achieved through the use of video- and audio-recordings of strategy workshops, I developed a conceptual framework that establishes strategic participation as socially accomplished through two forms of participation: preconfigured strategic participation; and peripheral strategic participation. The study shows that these two forms of participation were engaged with six interconnected concepts. Preconfigured strategic participation consists of expositioning, stance taking, and resolutioning. Peripheral strategic participation consists of preparatory meeting interaction, affiliative groups, and huddling, which emerged as a purposeful constellation for strategic negotiation. Building on the findings, I suggest that these mutually constitutive concepts, which collectively contribute to the concept of improvised adaptations, result in reflecting while also acting as a way of negotiating strategic participation. Overall, the study contributes to the strategy-as-practice literature as it develops a nuanced understanding of strategic participation through the mobilization of discursive, embodied, and material resources.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Strategic planning, Strategic planning -- Employee participation, Organizational sociology | ||||
Official Date: | June 2020 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Korica, Maja ; Tsoukas, Haridimos | ||||
Sponsors: | Warwick Business School ; Oppenheimer Memorial Trust | ||||
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Extent: | 261 pages : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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