Bourdieu

Violetta Splitter and Marie-Léandre Gomez

Chapter 1.4 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 18-20 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) figures as one of the main practice theorists. Bourdieu's theory is particularly comprehensive, capitalizing on major intellectual influences to build his own coherent framework to comprehend social life. Based on his large oeuvre, including his influential books Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) and The Logic of Practice (1990), Bourdieu developed a practice theory that is substantially concerned with the dynamics of power and the ways in which social order is maintained within society. Focusing on practices as the main mechanism and driver of social reality, his theory of practice has an obvious appeal to strategy as practice (SAP) and has been applied since the very beginning of SAP research. Within SAP research his theory has been mainly used to conceptualize strategy practice, to analyse strategic change, and to uncover the reproduction and power dynamics of strategy practices based on his notions of social field, capital, and habitus.

Keywords: Bourdieu; Practice theory; Habitus; Social fields; Power; Capital; Strategy practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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