Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games: Toward a Radical Constructivist Process Perspective

✍ Scribed by Dragan Djurić (auth.)

• Publisher: Gabler Verlag
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Schriften zur Unternehmensentwicklung
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Introduction and Research Motivation....Pages 1-18
Twisting the Familiar: Philosophical Underpinnings in Management Research....Pages 19-159
Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games....Pages 161-179
Dissertation Summary and Reflections....Pages 181-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-238

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership