Micro-isolationism

Richard Whittington and David Seidl

Chapter 2.17 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 169-172 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Micro-isolationism refers to research that interprets local empirical phenomena, such as individual episodes of activity, “wholly in terms of what is evidently present, cut off from the larger phenomena that make [them] possible” (Seidl and Whittington, 2014: 1408). For example, many studies on the dynamics of strategy meetings, as local empirical phenomena, ignore the role of the larger societal structures, such as the societally legitimate discourses and social and economic hierarchies, that directly and indirectly shape those local phenomena. In such micro-isolationist studies both the conditions that enable and produce those local phenomena and the repercussions of the phenomena beyond the site and moment are left unexamined. Going beyond micro-isolationism is about enlarging the Strategy as Practice research agenda. The point of this “larger view” is to explore the wider conditions and consequences of strategy activity in the first place.

Keywords: Micro-isolationism; Ontology; Societal structures; Power; Practice theory; Reflexivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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