Organization

Alwin Baumhöver and Leonhard Dobusch

Chapter 2.22 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 187-189 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The ontological question of what defines an organization has not been a central theme in strategy-as-practice (SAP) research, similar to more traditional strategy research that mostly takes organization for granted, as well. Yet, given the flat ontology of practice-theoretical approaches in general, the (re-)constitution of organizational phenomena from an SAP perspective can be conceptualized in the same manner as any social formation, based upon ongoing, patterned, and socially situated human activities. Building upon these foundations, one could even go so far to posit that what makes a social formation organizational in particular, is that its constituting bundle of interrelated sociomaterial practices is, at least to some degree, coordinated or driven by practices labelled as ‘strategic’ or ‘strategy-making’.

Keywords: Organization; Ontology; Practice theories; SAP; Organizing; Organizationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035315963.00056 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22511_49

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().