Artefacts

Romain Vacquier and Stéphanie Dameron

Chapter 4.2 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 368-372 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores how artefacts—from strategy documents and visual models to digital tools—actively participate in the making of strategy. Rather than viewing them as passive supports, we show how artefacts shape and are shaped by everyday strategizing, influencing how people think, talk, and act in organizations. Drawing on sociomaterial and discursive perspectives, the chapter illustrates how strategy takes form through the ongoing interplay between human and material agencies. It revisits major classifications of artefacts and highlights how their material features affect participation, meaning, and legitimacy in strategic processes. Finally, it opens new paths for research on digital and AI-driven artefacts and the values embedded in their use. In doing so, the chapter portrays strategy not as an abstract plan, but as a living practice continuously materialized through the artefacts that give it substance.

Keywords: Artefacts; Strategizing; Discourse; Agency; Sociomateriality; Materiality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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