Recursiveness

Paula Jarzabkowski

Chapter 2.33 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 235-238 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The concept of recursiveness is grounded in the many social theories of practice that underpin strategy-as-practice (SAP) research. Recursiveness may be defined as the reciprocal interplay between agency and structure that comprises understandings of how social order (structure) is constructed and reconstructed within people's everyday actions (agency). Social practice theorists and those who apply their theories in SAP research have been interested in the patterns that are formed within social order. They note that while these patterns shape people's actions they are not deterministic, as people also have agency in shaping or constructing the patterns of social order.

Keywords: Recursiveness; SAP; Agency; Structure; Stability; Strategic Change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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