Critical perspectives

Martin Blom

Chapter 5.5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 623-625 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The last two decades have seen Strategy as Practice (SAP) emerging as a distinctive stream of research, to a large extent as a reaction to a growing discontent with much of the dominant, mainstream strategy research. Especially the shortcomings of North-American-inspired strategic management research, with its economics-based methods and assumptions about firms and industries have been an important justification for its research endeavors. Richard Whittington describes SAP's ethos well when arguing for the missing sociological eye on strategy and strategists. However, one ‘frontier’ within SAP that still is to be explored and further developed is the notion of a critical perspective. There are of course many takes on the meaning of ‘critical’ here. One source of inspiration could be found in the field of Critical Management Studies.

Keywords: Critical Management Studies (CMS); Power dynamics; Identity; Critique; Social reform; Performativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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