The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management

• Main Author: Rasche, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Management.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

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 manage...

Table of Contents:

• to the Study
• Strategic Management as a Field of Study
• The Dominant Logics of Strategy Research
• Deconstruction and the ‘(N)either/(N)or’
• Strategic Realities — The Role of Paradox
• The Deconstruction of Strategic Realities
• ‘After Derrida’ — Strategy-as-Practice
• Final Reflections — Retrospect and Prospect.