Constructivism

Simon Grand

Chapter 1.5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 21-25 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) contributes to strategy research through the careful theoretical and empirical inquiry of the social fabric of strategy-making. In many instances, SAP explicitly or implicitly follows a constructivist “thought style”, which focuses on the generative and enactive dynamic implied in how strategies emerge and advance and which addresses strategy research itself as a creative and constructive process. Approaches like hermeneutic sociology or structuration theory, concepts like situatedness or performativity, and authors like Latour or Luhmann all rely on versions of a constructivist paradigm. This entry explores three exemplary constructivist paradigms: the paradigm of social construction, the paradigm of radical constructivism and the paradigm of relational constructing. These paradigms can be analytically distinguished, while being often entangled in research practice.

Keywords: Constructivism; Social construction; Radical constructivism; Relational constructing; Strategizing; Performativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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